{"id":30442,"date":"2021-06-03T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=30442"},"modified":"2021-06-08T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:07:46","slug":"what-does-the-supreme-courts-interpretation-of-the-computer-fraud-statute-mean-for-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/what-does-the-supreme-courts-interpretation-of-the-computer-fraud-statute-mean-for-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Supreme Court&#8217;s Interpretation of the Computer Fraud Statute Mean for Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her latest White Collar Crime Prof Blog post, Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/faculty\/home\/ellen-podgor.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ellen Podgor<\/a> writes, &#8220;The Supreme Court issued the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/19-783_k53l.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Van Buren<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>case this morning, providing a strict interpretation to the words &#8216;intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access.&#8217;\u00a0 It&#8217;s a 6-3 decision with an odd mix of the players.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Check out the full post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/whitecollarcrime_blog\/2021\/06\/what-does-the-supreme-courts-interpretation-of-the-computer-fraud-statute-mean-for-cybersecurity-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the importance of cybersecurity today, and the importance of focusing on those breaking into crucial computer systems, it seems like both the government and private industry need to be important gatekeepers in protecting information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-30442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-ellen-podgor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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