Tracker record · Federal · Statute
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and controlling access opinions
The CFAA's unauthorized-access prohibitions as narrowed by controlling Supreme Court authority on the meaning of exceeding authorized access, with consequences for scraping, credential misuse, and insider-access disputes.
Status
- Legal status
- In effect (Van Buren decided June 3, 2021)
- Allegation or finding
- Operative law
- Applicability
- Persons accessing protected computers
- Enforceability
- Binding on parties within scope
- Law checked through
- October 12, 2026
- Primary-source pinpoint
- 18 U.S.C. 1030
- Primary source
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
- Citation
- 18 U.S.C. 1030; Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. 374 (2021)
- Source
- 18 U.S.C. 1030
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