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Ninth Circuit gives okay to procrastinators and exaggerators -- and thieving employees
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- April 14 2012
The Ninth Circuit, in an April 10 en banc decision, held that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) does not prohibit the violation of an employer’s computer use policy or a website’s terms of service unless the violation involves what the court called “hacking.”
Source code can’t be stolen. Say what?
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- April 14 2012
Employers and technology companies may not have felt it yet, but they’ve just taken a left hook to the head and a right upper cut to the chin from the federal courts
Social media
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- November 23 2011
As tribunals continue to deal with claims for unfair dismissal for making derogatory Facebook comments, ACAS has prepared a paper on Social Media and its impact on employers and trade unions
Court allows recovery of lost business and investigation costs under CFAA
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- September 15 2011
According to a recent decision, Mobil Mark, Inc., v. Paskosz, prospective plaintiffs worried that they cannot show sufficient damage or losses to state a civil claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) should simply hire an expensive investigator
"TMI" can be ok, for the government
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- May 21 2011
A Washington State Court of Appeals recently held in Washington v. Canady that a phone company employee's disclosure to police of text messages that went beyond the scope of a warrant did not violate the Fourth Amendment
Is personal use of your office computer a crime?
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- May 14 2011
Under a recent ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, it could be, depending on your company's computer-use policy
Court guts usefulness of CFAA for employers
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- January 1 2011
A federal court in California recently adopted an extremely narrow interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) which, if adopted by other courts, would make it much more difficult for companies to go after rogue employees who make off with proprietary data or undertake some other harmful activity on a company computer
Some injuries just don't hurt
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- January 1 2011
"Injury in fact" and "actual loss or damage" would seem, to the untrained eye, to be the same thing
It's not just a pipe dream: PIPEDA victory for a private employer
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- Canada
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- August 14 2010
On July 21, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada held that a company that accessed a worker's corporate email account to investigate a potential breach of his employment contract did not violate the Personal Information Protection and Electronics Document Act (PIPEDA
Supreme Court first ducks, then addresses, issue of employees' expectation of privacy in workplace communications
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- June 19 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court held, in City of Ontario v. Quon, that a government employer's examination of an employee's pager messages did not violate the Fourth Amendment because it was justified by a "legitimate work-related rationale" and was "not excessively intrusive."
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