EFF: Georgia Must Block This Flawed Computer Crime Bill
Georgia Must Block This Flawed Computer Crime Bill The State of Georgia must decide: will it be a hub of technological and online media innovation, or will it be the state that criminalized terms of service violations? Will it support security research that makes us all safer, or will they chill the ability of Georgia’s infosec community to identify vulnerabilities that need to be fixed to protect our private information? This is what’s at stake with Georgia’s S.B. 315, and state lawmakers should stop it dead in its tracks. As EFF wrote in its letter opposing the bill , this legislation would hand immense power to prosecutors to go after anyone for “checking baseball scores on a work computer, lying about your age or height in your user profile contrary to a website’s policy, or sharing passwords with family members in violation of the service provider’s rules.” The bill also fails to clearly exempt legitimate, independent security research — such as that conducted by Georgia ...