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CFAA should not be linked to the common practice of password sharing

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Edward M. Chen, District Judge, Presiding “This case is about password sharing. People frequently share their passwords, notwithstanding the fact that websites and employers have policies prohibiting it. In my view, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) does not make the millions of people who engage in this ubiquitous, useful, and generally harmless conduct into unwitting federal criminals. Whatever other liability, criminal or civil, Nosal may have incurred in his improper attempt to compete with his former employer, he has not violated the...

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Agreed, Congress needs to narrow the scope of the CFAA

Reasonably Construing the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Avoid Overcriminalization “The Ninth and Fourth Circuits correctly identified the problems that would follow from the Justice Department’s interpretation of the CFAA. The appropriate step for Congress to take is to say that those circuits were right and to narrow the reach of the CFAA, not to expand the reach of the statute or to leave new, ambiguous terms...

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Court of Appeals agrees with us

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Marilyn H. Patel, Senior District Judge, Presiding “Because Nosal’s accomplices had permission to access the company database and obtain the information contained within, the government’s charges fail to meet the element of ‘without authorization or exceeds authorized access’....

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