The Justice Department is at odds with Google and privacy groups over the government's push to make it easier to locate and hack into computers in criminal investigations. Federal prosecutors say better tools are needed to track down computer users who hide their locations while committing crimes on the Internet. Civil libertarians fear that the proposal would grant the government expansive new powers to reach into computers across the country. The Justice Department wants the rules changed so that judges in a district where 'activities related to a crime' have occurred could approve warrants to search computers, even those outside their districts. The government says that flexibility is needed for cases in which the government can't figure out the location of a computer. Privacy organizations opposed to the rule change say the proposal is unclear about exactly what type of information could be accessed by the government.