A federal appeals court says employees are not liable for damages under anti-hacking laws for accessing their employers’ computers for disloyal purposes.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that workers authorized to access company computers do not lose or exceed that access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act even if their intent was to acquire data to open a competing business (.pdf).
There is no language in the 1984 anti-hacking statute, the SanSource: Threat Level RSS Feed
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