haring passwords for Facebook or other social media sites with friends;
-Starting a social media profile under a pseudonym;
-Exaggerating your height on a dating site;
-Visiting a site if you're under the stipulated age requirement (under 18 for many sites)
-Blocking cookies in a way that enables you to circumvent a news site's paywall. (For instance, the New York Times website cannot block those who delete cookies from reading more than the allotted number of free articles each month.)
Additionally, it is under the CFAA that law enforcement has undertaken a recent spate of prosecutions of questionable merit -- including that of our friend and Demand Progress cofounder Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide earlier this year while being prosecuted for downloading too many academic articles from JSTOR.
We've been pushing to change this, and have made some progress: Reps and Senators are pulling together a proposal called "Aaron's Law".
-Starting a social media profile under a pseudonym;-Exaggerating your height on a dating site;
-Visiting a site if you're under the stipulated age requirement (under 18 for many sites)
-Blocking cookies in a way that enables you to circumvent a news site's paywall. (For instance, the New York Times website cannot block those who delete cookies from reading more than the allotted number of free articles each month.)
Additionally, it is under the CFAA that law enforcement has undertaken a recent spate of prosecutions of questionable merit -- including that of our friend and Demand Progress cofounder Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide earlier this year while being prosecuted for downloading too many academic articles from JSTOR.
We've been pushing to change this, and have made some progress: Reps and Senators are pulling together a proposal called "Aaron's Law".
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