CFAA and SCA Do Not Prohibit Creation Of A Fake Facebook Page
10 07 2015The defendants in a case pending in Chicago federal court were accused of contravening Facebook’s terms of use by accessing its computers in order to create a phony page and then using it to ridicule someone. In Bittman v. Fox, Case No. 14 C 8191 (N.D.Ill., June 1, 2015) (Holderman, J.), the court held that those allegations do not state a cause of action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, or the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2707.
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