Supreme Court Narrows Computer Crime Law
By EsqSocial Corporation 18/06/21
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is not applicable to someone who accesses a computer he or she is allowed to access, and does not exceed the scope of the information he or she is permitted to access, but does so for a prohibited purpose. In a 6-3 split, the justices reversed the Eleventh Circuit’s October 2019 decision to uphold an ex-police officer’s conviction for having “exceeding” his authorized access to a law enforcement database by...
By: Weiner Brodsky Kider PC