To Catch a Thief in the Cloud: A Paradigm for Law Enforcement
ABSTRACT
Control over most of the world’s data including national security, criminal investigations, medical secrets, intellectual property, and a host of other important rights and responsibilities is governed by a paradigm that is conducted in the Internet ‘cloud’. Based on empirical research and an analysis of international and national legal regimes, case decisions, and forensic case analysis, this paper explores the challenges of reaching into the cloud and the proactive measures that will be necessary to improve legal certainty in the global electronic marketplace. The paper then considers the international and national frameworks necessary for control over the predators in the cloud, and the nature and type of evidentiary and jurisdictional issues that may arise in courts of law and tribunals around the globe.
AUTHORS
Professor of Cyber Law and Cybersecurity, Boston University, Boston, MA
USA
Prof. Virginia Greiman is an internationally recognized scholar and expert in the fields of national cyber security and cyber law and regulation. She serves as Assistant Professor at Boston University Metropolitan College and is a member of the Boston University Law Faculty. She has also held academic appointments at Harvard University Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her teaching and research focus on megaproject strategies and governance, cyber law and international law, national security strategies, cyber warfare and surveillance, global cybercrime and enforcement, privacy law and big data, and corporate innovation and competitiveness. She served in the United States Department of Justice and as an international legal consultant for the U.S. Department of State in Eastern and Central Europe. She has served as an advisor to numerous international and national organizations including the United States Air Force Institute of Technology Center for Cyberspace Research, the United States Agency for International Development, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the World Bank, and the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Professor Greiman has held executive and advisory positions with several of the world’s largest megaprojects in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia including Boston’s $15 billion-dollar Big Dig Project, London’s Crossrail Project, India’s Megaproject Initiatives and Smart Cities Program, Taiwan and Southeast Asia National Science Parks, the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry and Development in the South China Sea.
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Journal of Information Warfare
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