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• Electronic Theft and Espionage: Federal Law Provides a Remedy ( January 2007 )
  

  The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“Act”), 18 U.S.C. § 1030, gives employers a helpful tool to use against former employees who wrongfully use information from the employer’s computer system to assist competitors in competing unfairly. As the Third Circuit recently noted “[e]mployers . . . are increasingly taking advantage of the [Act’s] civil remedies to sue former employees and their new companies who seek a competitive edge through wrongful use of information from the former employer’s computer system."

• Effects of the CAN-SPAM Act on E-Mail Marketing ( May 2004 )
  

  A common marketing technique today is for businesses to send unsolicited e-mail messages to a targeted group of recipients. Even when e-mail advertisements notify recipients that they may "opt out" of receiving future e-mails, such e-mail campaigns may be significantly impacted by a new federal law known as the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003," or the "CAN-SPAM Act."

• The Law Protects The "Unauthorized" Access To Computer Data: How You Can Shape The Law While At The Same Time Protecting Your Data ( January 2004 )
  

  The computer and the Internet have dramatically changed the playing field of industrial espionage. Now, customer lists, marketing and strategic plans and financial information can be passed to the competition with a simple click of the mouse, and a high school hacker can break into computers that store a wealth of personal information.

• Technology Commentaries: California's New Aggressive Anti-Spam Law -- A Trap for Corporate Marketing Departments? ( September 2003 )
  

  California adopted one of the nationÂ’s most aggressive anti-spam laws in the fall of 2003. Although intended to halt the proliferation of spam, the broad sweep of the legislation will add increased operational burdens to the direct marketing efforts of legitimate companies and advertisers.

• California Enacts Country's Toughest SPAM Legislation ( October 2003 )
  

  On September 23, 2003, the governor of California signed California Bill ALS 487, enacting what is now the toughest anti-spam legislation in the United States. The new law, to be codified as Section 17529 of the Business and Professions Code, contains provisions that are much more restrictive than California's current law or any other law currently in force in other states. The law takes effect January 1, 2004.

• Controversy Surrounds 'Screen Scrapers': Software Helps Users Access Web Sites But Activity by Competitors Comes Under SCrutiny ( July 2003 )
  

  One of the latest computer technology controversies surrounds "screen scraping," a process by which a software program simulates a user’s interaction with a Web site to access information stored on that site.

• Cyber Talk Needs Cyber Laws ( January 2001 )
  

  The worldwide web, that vast library with millions of readily available and indexed publications, as well as a spr.

• Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act ( December 2000 )
  

  This alert examines the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) which will go into effect in the UK during the latter part of 2000 and early part of 2001.