In today’s companies the sphere of influence of CIOs is dramatically increasing vis-a-vis other C-Suite executives. This point was nicely made in a blog I read earlier this morning entitled CIO’s Seven Points of Key Influences that was written by Pearl Zhu. I believe that influence is even broader and also includes influence over legal …
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Can hacking and stealing a CAR violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
Ford wants its cars connected to the Internet. By now we all know from my previous post on United States v. Kramer that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to anything with a microchip or data processor that is connected to the Internet. So, the question I have is, if someone steals one of these …
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Discussion of Problems with Proposed Cybercrime Legislation
There are many proposals floating around Capitol Hill that will purport to beef up our nation’s current cybercrime laws, first and foremost the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. I have recently read two very good articles that do a nice job of explaining many of the inadequacies of the proposed legislation and is well worth …
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Data Breach – Who’s Gonna Get It?
The message–that’s what I’m talking about–who’s gonna get the message first? Data breaches, hacking, and privacy are one of the biggest news stories for 2011 and we are just just barely through the first half of the year. By now even the most zoned-out among us should have heard of the hacking that led to …
“News of the World” Phone Hacks A Violation of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
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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