At odds with privacy groups and Google, Justice Dept. seeks rule change on computer access

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is at odds with Google and privacy groups over the government’s push to make it easier to locate and hack in to computers in criminal investigations, a simmering conflict with constitutional and policy implications. Federal prosecutors say better tools are needed to track down computer users who hide their locations while committing crimes on the Internet. But civil libertarians fear in that the proposal, now … Read the rest