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<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Obama’s DOJ
Believes Lying on Dating Sites Should Be a
Crime<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/obamas-doj-believes-lying-on-dating-sites-should-be-a-crime/>by
Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>
This administration is straight up scary. If lying on a dating site is a
crime, how do they feel about Obama lying every time his lips move?
>From
>CNet<http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57324779-281/doj-lying-on-match.com-needs-to-be-a-crime/>
:
*The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that
make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in
an online dating profile at a site like Match.com.*
Just don't ask the DOJ to arrest illegal immigrants. They seem to have an
issue with criminals while pushing insane laws to arrest Americans for
simply lying.
In a statement obtained by CNET that's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow,
the Justice Department argues that it must be able to prosecute violations
of Web sites' often-ignored, always-unintelligible "terms of service"
policies.
The law must allow "prosecutions based upon a violation of terms of service
or similar contractual agreement with an employer or provider," Richard
Downing, the Justice Department's deputy computer crime chief, will tell
the U.S. Congress tomorrow.
Scaling back that law "would make it difficult or impossible to deter and
address serious insider threats through prosecution," and jeopardize
prosecutions involving identity theft, misuse of government databases, and
privacy invasions, according to Downing.
The law in question, the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act<http://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act_%28CFAA%29>,
has been used by the Justice Department to prosecute a woman, Lori Drew,
who used a fake MySpace account to verbally attack a 13-year old girl who
then committed suicide. Because MySpace's terms of service prohibit
impersonation, Drew was convicted of violating the
CFAA<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10006165-93.html>.
Her conviction was later thrown
out<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10278483-36.html>
.
What makes this possible is a section of the CFAA that was never intended
to be used that way: a general-purpose
prohibition<http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html> on
any computer-based act that "exceeds authorized access." To the Justice
Department, this means that a Web site's terms of service define what's
"authorized" or not, and ignoring them can turn you into a felon.
On the other hand, because millions of Americans likely violate terms of
service agreements every day, you'd have a lot of company.
A letter (PDF <http://cdt.org/files/pdfs/CFAA_Sign-on_ltr.pdf>) sent to the
Senate in August by a left-right coalition including the ACLU, Americans
for Tax Reform, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and FreedomWorks warns
of precisely that. "If a person assumes a fictitious identity at a party,
there is no federal crime," the letter says. "Yet if they assume that same
identity on a social network that prohibits pseudonyms, there may again be
a CFAA violation. This is a gross misuse of the law."
Continue
reading>>><http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57324779-281/doj-lying-on-match.com-needs-to-be-a-crime/>
*Scotty Starnes
<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| November
16, 2011 at 10:30 AM | Tags:
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dating sites <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=dating-sites>, Department
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FaceBook<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=facebook>,
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