U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal
Dec. 29, 2020
Fair or foul?: CFAA arguments in the US Supreme Court
The court will decide whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is essentially an anti-hacking statute or a data protection statute that criminalizes data misuse.
Assume two employees work in a bank. One uses the bank's Zoom account to host a virtual family gathering at Christmas; the other uses the same account to sell your personal financial information on the dark-web. Conceivably, the employee who hosted the family gathering could face criminal liability, and the dishonest teller might not. Or so argued the petitioner in Van Buren v. United States, a case recently heard by the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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