Van Buren v. United States (Supreme Court, 3 June 2021) (Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. 374 (2021), No. 19-783, slip op. at 1)
The Supreme Court narrowed the anti-hacking law to a gates-up-or-down question: may you enter this part of the system at all. Breaking a website's rules about how its data may be used is not, by itself, a federal computer crime.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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