6:30pm Reception - Manning Faculty Lounge Stanford Law School, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305
7:30pm Talk Begins - Paul Brest Hall, 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, 94305

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Have you ever borrowed a smartphone without asking? Modified a URL? Scraped a website? Called an undocumented API? Congratulations: you might have violated federal law! A 1986 statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), provides both civil and criminal remedies for mere "unauthorized" access to a computer.

This event aims to provide a geek perspective on the CFAA. Leading researchers, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs will explain the broad reach of computer trespass law and their first-hand experience with its chilling effects. All agree that serious intrusions warrant a remedy. But how can the law better distinguish between innovation and exploitation?

Speakers:

Ed Felten, Princeton University
Jennifer Granick, Stanford University
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
Jonathan Mayer, Stanford University
Alex Stamos, Artemis Internet
Dan Auerbach, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Additional speakers TBA.

This event is co-hosted by CIS, CISAC, and CITP.

Remote Participation: We will be embedding the live Ustream on this page. Bookmark this page so you can watch on February 19 at 7:30pm PST.

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