The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of a federal cybercrime law, holding that a policeman who improperly accessed a license plate database could not be charged under the law.
In a 6-3 majority opinion penned by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court held that Nathan Van Buren, a Georgia police officer, did not violate the nation's top computer crime law when he searched a license plate database for non-official purposes. Responding to a third party who offered to pay him to search the database -- a person who turned out to be an FBI informant -- Van Buren agreed, leading to what the US government alleged was a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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