The evolving information society is creating new economic, cultural and political opportunities. However, it also brings with it new issues and risks, which pose fresh challenges to every legal system. This volume contains articles, written by scholars in pertinent legal fields from all around the world, which analyze and attempt to meet these challenges. The articles contained in this collection present multifaceted intersections of law, information and information technology in the following fields: the emerging legal field of information law; privacy law; intellectual property law; internet law and regulation; stock-market law; authentication of electronic messages and its legal implications.

It has often been said that information is power. This is more true in the information age than ever. The book profiles the tools used by criminal law to protect confidential information. It deals with the essence of information, the varieties of confidential information, and the basic models for its protection within the context of the Internet and social networks. Eli Lederman examines the key prohibitions against collecting protected information, and against using, disclosing, and disseminating it without authorization. The investigation cuts across a broad subject matter to discuss and analyze key topics such as trespassing and peeping, the human body as a source of information, computer trespassing, tracking and collecting personal information in the public space, surveillance, privileged communications, espionage and state secrets, trade secrets, personal information held by others, and profiling and sexting. Infocrime will appeal to graduate and undergraduate scholars and academics in the legal arena, in law schools and schools of communication, and to practicing lawyers with an interest in legal theory and a concern for the protection of the personal realm in a world of increasingly invasive technologies.