<story><title>Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/are-you-teenager-who-reads-news-online-according-justice-department-you-may-be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The CFAA is a clusterfuck that has generated splits among the federal appellate courts on what it means.&lt;p&gt;The Second Circuit, adopting a narrow interpretation of what &amp;quot;exceeds authorized access&amp;quot; means, put it well:  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scholar.google.com&amp;#x2F;scholar_case?case=11783993212131547013&amp;amp;q=807+F.3d+508&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;as_sdt=20006&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scholar.google.com&amp;#x2F;scholar_case?case=117839932121315...&lt;/a&gt; (&amp;quot;Where, as here, ordinary tools of legislative construction fail to establish that the Government&amp;#x27;s position is unambiguously correct, we are required by the rule of lenity to adopt the interpretation that favors the defendant. Santos, 553 U.S. at 514, 128 S.Ct. 2020; United States v. Granderson, 511 U.S. 39, 54, 114 S.Ct. 1259, 127 L.Ed.2d 611 (1994). We do not think it too much to ask that Congress define criminal conduct with precision and clarity.&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t give the DOJ a pass here either. Prosecutors should not be pushing the boundaries of creative legal theories; that&amp;#x27;s for defense lawyers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/are-you-teenager-who-reads-news-online-according-justice-department-you-may-be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>If violating a web sites terms of service is a felony, then the government has delegated authority in defining felonies to every web site operator. That is not appropriate.&lt;p&gt;This goes back to the old problem of identity. If people were identifiable on the internet then web sites could easily blacklist or whitelist users and no rely on ToS for things like this.</text></comment>