computer fraud and abuse act
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The Legal Case Against the Journalist Who Exposed Kanye West’s Weird Fox News Interview
An opaque legal case against a Florida journalist is alarming press advocates, who see it as a troubling example of draconian government overreach. In May, former Deadspin editor Timothy Burke had his home raided by the FBI. Burke says federal agents seized “phones, computers, hard drives, notebooks, and his entire digital newsroom,” as well as…
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U.S. Supreme Court Puts New Hacking Precedent to the Test In Old LinkedIn Case
In 2019, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled that business-oriented social network LinkedIn couldn’t continue to block another company’s data scraping while a lawsuit between the two firms played out.