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June 3, 2021 04:12 pm
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Supreme Court Narrows Scope of CFAA Computer Hacking Law
The United States Supreme Court has ruled today in a 6-3 vote to overturn a hacking-related conviction for a Georgia police officer, and by doing so, it also narrowed down the scope of the US' primary hacking law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. From a report: The ruling, No. 19-783, comes in the Van Buren v. United States case of Nathan Van Buren, a former police sergeant in Cumming, Georgia, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in May 2018 for taking a bribe of $5,000 to look up a license plate for a woman one of his informants met at a local strip club. Prosecutors charged Van Buren under the CFAA and argued that even if the police officer had been authorized to access the police database as part of his work duties, he "exceeded authorized access" when he performed a search against department internal policies. In subsequent appeals, Van Buren argued that the "exceeds authorized access" language in the CFAA was too broad and requested that the US Supreme Court rule on the matter, in a case the court decided to pick up and heard arguments last year.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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