By Max Marbut

Computers have changed global business by allowing more data to be processed and stored in more places and accessed by more people than in any time in history. In some ways, the technology has created new commercial advantages. In other ways, it has created consequences, depending on the nature of the data, who has access to it and what they are able to do with that data.

Cases are appearing on the dockets of federal courts that, before the computer age, would have involved breaking and entering and burglary or at least leaving the office with a briefcase full of sensitive information that was intended to remain in-house.

In August, an Intel employee in Boston was indicted for theft of trade secrets. Three months later he was also indicted for wire fraud in connection with downloading confidential documents from the company's headquarters in California, where his wife worked.

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