Talking About the Global Impact of Cybersecurity, Law, and Business Risk
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a full committee hearing on updating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act at 10:00 AM on August 3, 2011. The hearing can be viewed by webcast through this LINK. The title of the hearing is “Cybercrime: Updating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Protect Cyberspace and …
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BEWARE: if you create a fake login to access and obtain information from a website you could be violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. This is what was alleged in a lawsuit against AtHomeNet, Inc. in the lawsuit Associateionvoice, Inc. v. AtHomeNet, Inc. Ultimately the parties reached a settlement that led to the entry …
Professor Orin Kerr is certainly one of the leading authorities on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In a recent blog post he provides an excellent analysis of how the hacking scandal involving the English newspaper “News of the World” may have violated the United State’s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act law even though it …
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Three recent Computer Fraud and Abuse Act cases decided over the last couple of months are worth looking at because they show the following points, respectively: (1) the CFAA in its current form does not give consumers an adequate remedy for privacy related data breach issues; (2) the CFAA’s focus on “access” is more akin …
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The DISCLAIMER to an article on InvestorsInsight.com really got my attention when I saw it because it specifically puts users on notice of the need to review the privacy policies on websites linked to that page and that any attempts to monkey around with the website are prohibited by and will be prosecuted under the …
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Computer hacking, data breach, data privacy, and information security have dominated the news lately and created a sense of urgency in Congress to “do something” to fix the problems. Over the last few days I have searched the web for a source to keep me updated on all of the cyber-legislation that is currently pending …
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By necessity, for this update I am trying to change my format for blogging updates for recent cases involving the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) as this lawyer has been busy lately. Instead of providing a relatively thorough analysis of each individual case, I must cover several in one update and just briefly touch …
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In a story available HERE, the Smoking Gun reports that an Angela Voelkert, the ex wife of David Voelkert, got her former husband busted by the FBI by setting up a fake Facebook account and pretending to be the 17 year old “comely teenage girl” pictured at the right (pic taken directly from Smoking Gun): …
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On June 7, 2011 Senator Leahy introduced bill S. 1151 in the Senate called the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011, which is linked HERE. The stated purpose of the bill is as follows: To prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal …
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The Intended Use Theory of access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) has been all the rage among since the Ninth Circuit handed down its opinion in United States v. Nosal but that doesn’t mean the Agency Theory has gone by the wayside. Just last week a district court used the Agency Theory …
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