Update: Case Involving Sharing of Passwords May Be Headed to the Supreme Court

Jeffrey M. Schlossberg of Jackson Lewis writes:

Last August, we reported on a Ninth Circuit case in which a former employee was convicted of a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) for accessing and downloading information from his former company’s database “without authorization.”  The former employee has now asked that the U.S. Supreme review the Ninth Circuit’s decision.

The question presented to the high Court is, “Whether a person who obtains an account holder’s permission to access a computer nevertheless ‘accesses a computer without authorization’ in violation of the CFAA when he acts without permission from the computer’s owner.”

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