A Georgia conviction is the vehicle accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split on whether an authorized computer user violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by using it for an improper purpose.
The justices Monday granted certiorari in the case of a former Cumming, Georgia, police officer who was convicted of computer fraud after he took money to access a state criminal database to check whether a woman was an undercover officer.
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