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- Aaron’s Law refers to a bill introduced in the United States Congress in 2013. Though the bill did not pass Congress, it was named for the lasting influence of Aaron Swartz, internet innovator and activist, after he was charged and convicted of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
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Jan 14, 2013 · In our age, armed with laws passed in the nineteen-eighties and meant for serious criminals, the federal prosecutor Carmen Ortiz approved a felony indictment that originally demanded up to...
Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research ...
Jul 30, 2013 · The report also sets the record straight by dispelling widely circulated myths. For example, it makes clear that MIT did not ‘target’ Aaron Swartz, we did not seek federal prosecution, punishment or jail time, and we did not oppose a plea bargain.
Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.
Jun 3, 2021 · Supreme Court reins in definition of crime under controversial hacking law. Justices reject US gov's broad interpretation of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Jon Brodkin - 6/3/2021, 12:46 PM....
Mar 21, 2019 · In 2011, Aaron was arrested for "unlawfully obtaining information from," and "recklessly damaging" a "protected computer" after he downloaded 4.8 million documents from the academic archive JSTOR, a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Jan 23, 2013 · Ortiz and Heymann charged Swartz under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a 29-year-old law, notorious in the legal world for being broadly interpretable. They argued that Swartz accessed MIT...
