The Obama Administration's Cybersecurity Proposal : Criminal Provisions.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sentences (Criminal procedure).

Computers.

Financial institutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 pages, digital, PDF file)

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2011.

System Details:

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text file

Summary:

Examines criminal law provision of Obama Administration report containing proposal for significant cybersecurity legislation to supplement the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by adding mandatory three-year minimum penalty for damaging certain critical infrastructure computers, increasing penalties for most violations of the CFAA, modifying conspiracy and forfeiture provisions of the CFAA, and making felony violation of the CFAA a racketeering predicate offense. Compares Administration proposal to S. 1151, the Personal Data Privacy, and Security Act of 2011, and S. 890, the Fighting Fraud to Protect Taxpayers Act of 2011, both to update CFAA to address modern challenges to cybersecurity.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Jan. 2013). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division. Obama Administration's Cybersecurity Proposal

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