{"id":886,"date":"2018-01-30T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/01\/30\/3-reasons-this-georgia-data-security-bill-poses-a-threat-to-security-researchers\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:22:00","slug":"3-reasons-this-georgia-data-security-bill-poses-a-threat-to-security-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/3-reasons-this-georgia-data-security-bill-poses-a-threat-to-security-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons this Georgia Data Security Bill Poses a Threat to Security Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerogia Legislature is considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/en-US\/display\/20172018\/SB\/315\">Senate Bill 315 (2018)\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Data Security research supporters say the bill raises these 3 concerns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The terms\u00a0\u00a0\u201caccess\u201d and \u201cauthority&#8221; are not clearly defined<\/li>\n<li>because the terms are not clearly defined research will be quelled for the fear of committing an unknown crime<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act also had broad terms and led to the &#8220;overzealous&#8221; prosecution of researchers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the goal of the bill?<\/strong> To add the\u00a0crime of unauthorized computer access to the\u00a0Georgia Computer Systems Protection Act<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ksusentinel.com\/2018\/01\/29\/georgia-bill-poses-potential-threat-to-cybersecurity-researchers\/\">KSU Sentinel |\u00a0Georgia bill poses potential threat to cybersecurity researchers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerogia Legislature is considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/en-US\/display\/20172018\/SB\/315\">Senate Bill 315 (2018)\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Data Security research supporters say the bill raises these 3 concerns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The terms\u00a0\u00a0\u201caccess\u201d and \u201cauthority&#8221; are not clearly defined<\/li>\n<li>because the terms are not clearly defined research will be quelled for the fear of committing an unknown crime<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act also had broad terms and led to the &#8220;overzealous&#8221; prosecution of researchers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the goal of the bill?<\/strong> To add the\u00a0crime of unauthorized computer\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-regulatory-enforcement","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}