Category Archives: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Harvester of Sorrow? (IL Fed. Court Tackles Computer Fraud Case

 (photo credit: Google Images: www.strangehistory.net) Fidlar Technologies v. LPS Real Estate Data Solutions, Inc., 2013 WL 5973938 (C.D.Ill. 2013), a high-tech diversity suit, examines internet data “harvesting” and whether it gives rise to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (CFAA) and common law tort liability.  The plaintiff developed a computer program that allowed recorder …

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Nasty Flood of Phone Calls and E-Mails Gives Rise to Computer Fraud Damage Claim – 6th Cir.

In Pulte Homes International Union of North America, 648 F.3d 295 (6th Cir. 2011), the Sixth Circuit addressed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in a case where a national labor union launched a barrage of  harassing telephone calls and e-mails against a Michigan home builder that fired a union member. The plaintiff home sued the union under the …

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Does the Computer Fraud Act Apply to ‘Dumbphones’?

While this Court does not disagree that unwanted text messages, like spam e-mail, are an annoyance, whether receipts of such messages can establish a civil action under the CFAA is, of course, a different question. Czech v. Wall Street on Demand, Inc. 674 F.Supp. 1102, 1106 (N.D.Minn. 2009). Anti-spam (e-mail and text) lawsuits and legislation are legion: a flurry …

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