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Nearly three-fourths of the nation’s largest corporations, from Xerox to Salomon Brothers Smith Barney, legally check up on employees by monitoring email, Internet use, computer files and even telephone conversations, according to a study by the AMA, a nonprofit organization that provides management and business training. Companies say they don’t routinely spy on employees, but […]

A digital signature or digital signature scheme is a type of asymmetric cryptography used to simulate the security properties of a handwritten signature on paper. Digital signature schemes consist of at least three algorithms: a key generation algorithm, a signature algorithm, and a verification algorithm. A signature provides authentication of a “message”. Messages may be […]

Cybersquatting is a speculative practice on the Internet involving the bad-faithpurchase of domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to existing registered trademarks. Billions of web addresses have been registered and the number is growing rapidly; the problem of cybersquatting has grown tremendously as more and more companies make the transition to e-commerce, only […]

Defamation laws have developed over several centuries to provide recourse for people whose reputation is or is likely to be harmed by publication of information about them. In theory, the objective of defamation laws is to balance protection of individual reputation with freedom of expression. In practice, defamation laws are frequently used as a means […]

April 2002 – The U.S. Supreme Court has overthrown a congressional ban on virtual paedophilia. It ruled the First Amendment protects pornography or other sexual images that only appear to depict real children engaged in sex. The judgment is a victory for both pornographers and legitimate artists such as filmmakers. They argued that a broad ban […]

If you have been libeled, you can sue for damages. Libel is the publication of false or defamatory statements about another-which could be a person, an institution, or a company. Traditionally, the courts have distinguished between slander-which is a comment that appears in a transitory form, such as speech-and libel, which is published. False information […]