CFAA
Proper noun
Meaning
CFAA
Initialism of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Examples
And even with this ruling, the CFAA is subject to multiple conflicting interpretations across the federal circuits, making it likely that the Supreme Court will eventually be forced to resolve the meaning of key terms like ‘without authorization.’
Attendees will hear directly from a Department of Justice's Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section Prosecutor explaining the CFAA in plain English and breaking down the process for deciding whether to bring charges in federal hacking cases.
The CFAA is a Federal law, not a State law.
This month, LinkedIn its own CFAA ruling, which found that third-party analytics firm hiQ was, in fact, by scraping publicly available data on its site.
Due to how vague this law is, the CFAA to mean that violations of company terms of service agreements are also violations of federal law.
This case is part of a growing trend of cases in which courts have dismissed CFAA claims related to the use of cookies and other forms of Internet usage-tracking technologies to better target consumers.