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At Meta, millions of underage users were an 'open secret,' show court filing (economictimes.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That was a fun read with some interesting facts I never knew... But I think you put some weird spins into it.

Like I don't think Americans are commiting 3 felonies a day, and I'd really be curious about the explanation of that.

And I dont think lying about your age is applicable to the CFAA without some wild lawyering to consider it impersonating someone else to gain unauthorized access to protected data.

But maybe I suck at understanding legal writing

https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-48000-computer-fraud

Thus, embellishing an online dating profile contrary to the terms of service of the dating website; creating fictional accounts on hiring, housing, or rental websites; or using a pseudonym on a social networking site that prohibits them, might all violate a user’s contract with the owner of the protected computer, but the Department will not take the position that a mere contractual violation caused the user’s previous authorization to be automatically withdrawn and that the user was from that point onward acting in violation of the CFAA

I think this is a decent defense of CFAA not worrying about lying about age

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My source is a lot of reading on Techdirt, and their source is the explanation in Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Harvey Silverglate, but please, if you have doubts, I encourage you to dive deep.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Eh I would rather have had a discussion, summary or explanation than read a 400 page book for a random interesting claim

Here's the book if anyone's curious

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229

I couldn't find any Techdirt articles with substance in the claim, but I'm not going to listen to podcasts so maybe thats where any details of the claim are hidden