In the mid 80s, the law known as Computer Fraud and Abuse Act already passed to prevent some kind of online frauds like those that target the online victims of certain sites like those fraud sites that provide you the scam prizes or perhaps the scam warnings saying that your accounts will be removed or whatever if you don't do something. Normally, the companies don't issue you such kinds of warnings like that so you have to be careful not to be a victim of those frauds as you may end up losing lots of precious money from your bank or some sort.
However, it seems that the government is trying to amend this law in such a bad way that it will claim that it will criminalize all sorts of mundane Internet use that may break a website's fine print terms of service agreement. There was one example where the companies may end up committing a federal crime for having the new employees surrender the Facebook passwords for business purposes or perhaps business securities like that and that kind of policy is kind of bad as we knew of.
So far, there is some progress going on. Reps and Senators are making their proposal known as Aaron's Law. But then, last week, the members of the House Judiciary Committee made their proposal that would be the opposite of Aaron's Law by expanding certain parts of CFAA and next week, the voting will begin at anytime soon. This is where we IDL members must prevent this bad proposal from happening.
At the site http://www.fixthecfaa.com/, you will be given the right pane to fill in your Full Name, Email Address, Home Address and so on and the note is already written down for you so that your can take actions. However, I don't think there's a way you can modify the note like that but better still, keep CFAA as normal as ever as the way the House Republicans expand it is kind of bad. The voting will take place in April 10. Secondly, you may be asked to add the widget on your site and it will be activated on April 8 to spread the word. I don't know how long this will last but at least, this is prepared by IDL all along. Third is a naughty thing, it's basically an IDL Facebook app that photoshops your photo by adding the Jail layer in front of your Facebook Profile Photo which means the Jail Layer on Top of the Photo Layer by Photoshop terms. Why the hell do I want to do that? It's not like I'm falsely accused and then sent straight to Prison Island or something.
