Yotam Berger

I examine how democracies are reshaping criminal law enforcement practices through their reliance on private technology companies and commercial spyware firms to access digital information and obtain evidence. As law enforcement agencies increasingly bypass traditional legal mechanisms and turn directly to tech companies for user data, and as governments adopt invasive cyber tools when cooperation fails, new legal and institutional challenges emerge. My research explores how these developments affect privacy, accountability, and the rule of law in the digital age. Bridging law, cybersecurity, and the social sciences, my work integrates doctrinal legal analysis with quantitative and qualitative empirical methods. This interdisciplinary approach enables a comprehensive understanding of how digital investigative practices are evolving and seeks to inform policy reforms that promote efficient and just law enforcement, oversight, and rights protection in the context of modern criminal procedure and evidence law.