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Administrative/Regulatory

Sep. 30, 2015

CFAA reform is badly needed

Technology lawyers understand that our world is now interconnected, with Americans using other people's computers as much as their own. Unfortunately, the law hasn't kept up with this new reality. By Cindy Cohn and Jamie Williams

Cindy A. Cohn

Executive Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Email: cindy@eff.org

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Jamie Lee Williams

Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Technology lawyers understand that our world is now interconnected. Americans today spend nearly as much time using other people's computers as they do their own. We are accessing third-party computers while we are cloud computing, logging into our Gmail accounts, conducting legal research, accessing online social networks, buying plane tickets, or even just watching movies on Netflix. And with the proliferation of the "Internet of Things" - a wor...

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