On June 3, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in Van Buren v. United States, narrowing the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). In resolving a circuit split in favor of a ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the reach of a federal computer fraud law that seeks to address hacking and other cybercrimes, siding with a former Georgia police officer who was ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in the 6-3 opinion, wrote that the court would not interpret the phrase "exceeds authorized access" to criminalize every violation of a computer-use policy. (Associated ...

The US Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who obtained information from a licence database for a civilian, in exchange for money, did not violate federal hacking laws. The ruling clarifies ...

"Indeed, there are many other causes of action—breach of contract, business torts, fraud, negligence, and so on—that provide a remedy for employers when employees grossly transgress computer-use ...

An individual who uses an authorized computer to access permissible areas of the computer no longer violates the “exceeds authorized access” clause of the CFAA, according to a new ruling. An ...

In a long awaited opinion, the Supreme Court recently resolved a circuit split regarding the proper interpretation of a statute implicated in many post-employment disputes. Since its enactment, ...