"Aaron Swartz was not the first or the last victim of overzealous prosecution under the CFAA," write Democratic Representative from California Zoe Lofgren and Ron Wyden, a Democratic Senator from Oregon. "That's why we're authoring bipartisan legislation — which, with the permission of Aaron Swartz's family, we call 'Aaron's Law' — in the House and Senate to begin the process of updating the CFAA." [Wired Opinion]
Zoe Lofgren and Ron Wyden formally introduce Aaron's Law, a CFAA reform bill
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