Digital Evidence and Cloud Forensics: Contemporary Legal Challenges and the Power of Disposal

Digital Evidence and Cloud Forensics: Contemporary Legal Challenges and the Power of Disposal

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Fighting crime in cyberspace requires law enforcement authorities to immerse in a digital ocean of vast amount of information and also to acquire and objectify the evidence of criminal activity.Handling digital evidence is a complex and multifaceted process as they can provide critical evidentiary information in an unquestionable and irrefutable way.When digital evidence resides in a cloud storage environment the criminal investigation is faced with unprecedented contemporary legal challenges.In this paper, Custom Tee the authors identify three main legal challenges that arise from the current cloud-based technological landscape, i.e.

, territoriality (the loss of location), possession (the cloud content ownership) and confiscation procedure (user authentication/data preservation issues).On the onset of the identified challenges, the existing American, European and International legal frameworks are thoroughly evaluated.Finally, the authors discuss and endorse the Power of Disposal, a newly formed legal notion and a multidisciplinary educational toys solution with a global effect as a result of collaboration between technical, organizational and legal perspectives as an effective first step to mitigate the identified legal challenges.