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Computer Fraud & Abuse Laws An Overview Of Federal Criminal Laws
The federal computer fraud and abuse statute, 18 U.S.C. 1030, outlaws conduct that victimizes computer systems. It is a cyber security law which protects federal computers, bank computers, and computers connected to the Internet. It shields them from trespassing, threats, damage, espionage, and from being corruptly used as instruments of fraud. It is not a comprehensive provision, but instead it fills cracks and gaps in the protection afforded by other federal criminal laws. This report provides a brief sketch of Section 1030 and some of its federal statutory companions, including the amendments found in the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act, P.L. 110-326. Extensive appendices. This is a print on demand publication.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. 1030, outlaws conduct that victimizes computer systems. It is a cyber security law. It protects federal computers, bank computers, and computers connected to the Internet. It shields them from trespassing, threats, damage, espionage, and from being corruptly used as instruments of fraud. It is not a comprehensive provision, but instead it fills cracks and gaps in the protection afforded by other federal criminal laws. This is a brief sketch of CFAA and some of its federal statutory companions, including the amendments found in the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act, P.L. 110-326, 122 Stat. 3560 (2008). This report is available in abbreviated form—without the footnotes, citations, quotations, or appendixes found in this report—under the title CRS Report RS20830, Cybercrime: A Sketch of 18 U.S.C. 1030 and Related Federal Criminal Laws, by Charles Doyle.
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As businesses move their confidential information onto computers, sensitive data gains the protection not only of state trade secret law, but also potentially of federal computer misuse statutes. The interaction between those two bodies of law, however, is more problematic than any commentator has yet realized. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, is a federal criminal statute with a private right of action allowing those who suffer information theft via computer to maintain a civil action against the thief. More and more in recent years, however, employers whose faithless employees misappropriate purported trade secrets have used the CFAA as a basis for employee liability, as well as a way to bootstrap their claims into federal court. Using the CFAA in this manner creates two problems. First, substantively, since a CFAA claim is much easier to prove than a traditional state-law trade secret misappropriation claim, plaintiffs will be more likely to plead the former. But because the CFAA lacks virtually all of the policy-based protections built into trade secret law, this upsets the delicate balance between employers and employees that trade secret law strikes. Second, jurisdictionally, using the CFAA to establish federal question jurisdiction, then bringing trade secret claims into federal court under supplemental jurisdiction, contravenes the intent of Congress in passing the CFAA and damages core notions of federalism and the relationship between federal and state law.This Article proposes two solutions to the two problems that arise at the intersection of trade secret law and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. First, Congress should act to remove the CFAA's substantive crime that most closely approximates trade secret misappropriation from the Act's private right of action, thus removing the threat that the CFAA will disrupt the values underlying substantive trade secret law. Second, judges ruling on motions to dismiss CFAA claims should carefully examine the parties' contentions and use the discretion granted in 28 U.S.C. § 1367(c) to dismiss state-law trade secret claims. Thus claims in which the CFAA is merely, in the words of one judge, “a federal tail” wagging “a state dog” can be returned where they belong: state court.