Geography
The Jurisdictional Challenges of Transnational Cybercrime Investigations and Digital Evidence
Quick fact
A single cybercrime can implicate the laws of ten or more countries at once, yet traditional rules of territorial jurisdiction often leave it to no one to prosecute—a phenomenon sometimes called the 'jurisdictional black hole.'
Why this is interesting
Imagine a cybercriminal in Russia hacks a bank in the U.S., stores the stolen data on servers in Ireland, and uses a VPN that routes through the Netherlands. Who can arrest the criminal and who gets to look at the digital evidence?