I found an article on the Infoworld websiteGrant Gross of the IDG News Service reported on 8 September 2011 that the main U.S. law targeting cyber crime may need to be changed because it has allowed law enforcement agencies to target people who simply violate websites' terms of service or their employers' computer use policies, two senators said Wednesday.
The article goes on to say that the law needs to further define the definition of illegal access to computers. What caught my attention about the article was that the law was being used to prosecute some for violation of computer use policies rather than going after actual computer crimes. Under the current law, employees could be charged with a crime if they access personal email or check the weather online in violation of their companies' computer use policies.
I wonder what companies would go to that kind of extreme and how would they enforce the policy fairly. How will they be able to differentiate between an acceptable use policy violation and a computer crime and still have enough teeth in the law to make a difference.
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