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Narrow view of CFAA in N.D. Ill.
Posted by Dirk Avery at 1:41 pm under Internet, Trade Secret.
In a slip opinion (Garelli Wong & Assoc. v. Nichols, N.D. Ill., Jan. 16, 2008), Judge Kocoras dismissed a civil claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for failure to state a claim. Nichols, a former employee of Garelli Wong, allegedly took confidential information from GW’s database of “candidate and client activity […]