Budapest Convention Offers an Opportunity for Modernizing Crimes in Cyberspace

Ensuring that such emerging activities are as illegal as counterpart activity applied to traditional software systems is a key challenge for criminal law—and yet another reason to modernize the CFAA. In addition, our proposal broadens the definition of illegal activity from simple “unauthorized access,” as relied on by the CFAA, toward the creation of specific harms in cyberspace targeted at data or at software systems as a whole. This, in turn, ensures that malicious activities targeting machine learning models are categorized as criminal activity while also protecting traditional software systems already covered by the CFAA.

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