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By Jennifer Granick on October 26, 2013 at 9:35 am
Over at Just Security, I have a new post looking at the legal issues and new amici briefs in the Lavabit case. Read more about New Post: Hands Off Encryption! Say New Amici Briefs in Lavabit Case
By Jennifer Granick on February 20, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Thanks to our speakers and everyone who came out last night for the Innovation or Exploitation event, highlighting problems the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) poses for security research, innovation, tinkering, academic research and libraries. I learned a lot, including that much of what librarians do today -- like making court records and academic articles widely available and cataloging books -- requires "scraping" and da Read more about Innovation or Exploitation Wrap Up
By Jennifer Granick on January 23, 2013 at 9:43 pm
Law professor and cybercrime expert Orin Kerr published a proposal to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to address the overcriminalization that he has been at the forefront of identifying and combatting. His current proposal, which very simply but comprehensively addresses a number of problems with the CFAA, is here.
By focusing purely on whether the service operator implements technological access barriers, the proposal risks a similar problem to the one that the current statute has, giving server owners plenary authority to criminalize the way members of the public interact with information made available online, but through “technological access barriers” rather than merely terms of service and employee agreements. Read more about Thoughts on Orin Kerr's CFAA Reform Proposals: A Great Second Step
By Jennifer Granick on January 16, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Yesterday, Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced on Reddit a bill to improve the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide during the pendency of his prosecution for violating various provisions of that law and of the Wire Fraud Act. I've attached Read more about Thoughts on Zoe Lofgren's CFAA Bill: A Great First Step
