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Legal Aspects of Digital Forensics  Daniel J. Ryan The George Washington University Washington, D. C. danjryan@  Gal Shpantzer The George Washington University Washington, D. C. gal@ ABSTRACT Of the disciplines that comprise Information Assurance, digital forensics is perhaps the one most closely defined by legal requirements, and one whose growth and evolution is informed and guided by case law, regulatory changes, and the ability of cyberlawyers and digital forensics experts to take the products of forensic tools and processes to court. The tension between privacy rights and la