How to avoid leakage of source code or company information. Your employees know a lot about your company and your programmers know by heart the source code of the software that your company generates or modifies, or even its valuable technical structure. In a possible transfer of your staff to another company, not only the know-how is conveyed but also the confidential information that was at their disposal.

Blogs, Chat Rooms and Forums: Views of a new legal reality By Elena Alk. Spiropoulou, Attorney at law The Internet has given wings to communities! Whichever is your hobby, whichever is your individual characteristic, whichever your taste or your opinion on something, through the Internet you will find people of the same ideas and preferences. Not only you will find people from all over the world that share your interests, but you will be able to communicate with them, to be part of their team, so that you can talk with them in real time. How can this happen?

A great problem of online information is the easy access to illegal content. Today there are at least 4.000 websites of racist content and many others that show child pornography or pederasty. We all understand that internet besides of being a useful tool of information can offend public interest, accepted principles of morality, or even harm the mental health of minors. It is important to find the fine line between the right to information and other fundamental human values that may be offended in the internet.

Interview to AL HAYAT When Internet laws entered officially in Greece? The first enactment that explicitly referred to e-communications must be of the 90’s. The last five years we have a lot of great laws on online communications, mostly from EU legislation. But I wouldn’t say this is the first time that legislation referring to the internet is applied. And that is because when online the same laws apply as in every other aspect of our lives. The nature of a crime isn’t altered according to where it’s being committed.