The Legal Nature of Digital Evidence in Cybercrime

Despite the great development taking place in the technolo gical field and its benefits at the internal and external levels for the countries of the world, it resulted in new distinct methods of committing crimes, which is known as cybercrime, which made most countries, through their internal legislation, seek to keep pace with these develo p- ments to combat this criminal phenomenon by developing Mechanisms and means to combat it, especially the new methods of criminal investigation, distinct from the traditional methods of investigation of violence and torture in or der to reach the evidence, so the growing scientific revolution has become dependent on technological and digital methods and this technique on the one hand and on the other hand the privacy that characterizes electronic crimes, which is often difficult to monitor and track And then proving it, which is known as digital evidence, where the fo l- lowing problem is raised: What is the privacy of digital evidence in proving cybercrime? In order to answer this pro b- lem, we discuss in this intervention two axes to t he concept of digital evidence, as well as digital proof mechanisms in cybercrime.