ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how international laws and regulations imposed a level of standard for how electronically stored information (ESI) is considered legally admissible as evidence before a trier of fact. Digital forensics is the application of science to law and, subsequently, must adhere to the precedence set forth by the laws, statutes, and rulings of legal systems. Although existing laws and regulations can be used to address most forms of cybercrime, international lawmakers recognized a need to have laws and regulations that deal specifically with technology-related crimes. The legal aspects of technology crimes have many overlapping areas of laws and regulations. With both civil and criminal matters, there can be instances where evidence is located outside the boundary of the organization's span of control across many different geographies or where different jurisdictional laws, standards, or regulations govern both computer-related crimes and access to ESI.
