New Federal Legislation Proposed To Amend Computer Fraud and Abuse Act To Address Unauthorized Cloud Computing Activities

On September 19, 2012, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Hoeven (R-ND) introduced the “Cloud Computing Act of 2012.” The bill is a bipartisan effort to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”). If the bill passes, it would purportedly provide greater civil and criminal protections under the CFAA against unlawful computer activites related to cloud computing than currently exist. The introduction of the bill was delayed until this year after Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) withdrew his support for the original bill in mid-2011.

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