Homework Clinic
Social Science Clinic => Law and Politics => Topic started by: EAugust on Sep 18, 2019
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The federal government has passed a number of laws specifically applicable to cybercrime. Identify three of these and explain each in detail.
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Should include points such as:
•The 1996 Communications Decency Act was designed to protect minors from harmful material on the Internet. In the 1997 case Reno v. ACLU, the U.S. Supreme Court found the bulk of the CDA to be unconstitutional, contravening the First Amendment free speech protections.
•The Children's Internet Protection Act requires public and school libraries receiving certain types of federal funding to install pornography filters on their Internet-linked computers
•The 1997 No Electronic Theft Act criminalized the willful infringement of copyrighted works, including by electronic means, even when the infringing party derives no direct financial benefit from the infringement.
•The 1999 Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act increased the amount of damages that could be awarded in cases of copyright infringement.
•The 2002 Cyber Security Enhancement Act directed the U. S. Sentencing Commission to take several factors into account in creating new sentencing guidelines for computer criminals.
•The 2014 Cybersecurity Enhancement Act provides for an ongoing, voluntary public-private partnership for a variety of purposes, including improving cybersecurity and improving cybersecurity research.
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