Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Breaking Terms of Service should *NOT* be a federal crime!

This stream from the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law school is a speech from Jennifer Granick from EFF discussing the CFAA

The discussion gelled when Aaron Swartz committed suicide after being harassed by the Federal DA in Boston, illustrating prosecutorial misconduct against a citizen at its worst, and there are plenty more where this came fromZoe Lofgren is introducing Aaron's Law to help fix this

CFAA states, among other things, "... exceeds authorized access is a federal crime" - does this make any sense any more?  Even worse, the federal appeals courts are split on the broad vs narrow interpretation of this statement.

A generation of people who are under 18 and using GMAIL, anyone letting someone log into their facebook account, or on a dating site describing themselves as "tall, dark, and handsome", should not be federal criminals.

This is not an example from an extremist - it's from the 9th federal court of appeals. I think this is it

Support the EFF in their fight to fix the CFAA!

Update:  Awesome - A bill to make cell phone unlocking legal

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