Gerogia Legislature is considering Senate Bill 315 (2018) .
Data Security research supporters say the bill raises these 3 concerns:
- The terms “access” and “authority” are not clearly defined
- because the terms are not clearly defined research will be quelled for the fear of committing an unknown crime
- The Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act also had broad terms and led to the “overzealous” prosecution of researchers
What’s the goal of the bill? To add the crime of unauthorized computer access to the Georgia Computer Systems Protection Act
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