ACM USTPC HotTopic, June 24: "Of Access, Excess, and Trespass: The Supreme Court’s Van Buren Ruling on the CFAA"

June 17, 2021

Register now for the next webinar in ACM US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC)’s HotTopics series, “Of Access, Excess, and Trespass: The Supreme Court’s Van Buren Ruling on the CFAA,” happening on June 24 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM EDT.

USTPC Law Subcommittee Chair and former Assistant US Attorney Andy Grosso will moderate a panel of experts who will take a deep dive into the Court’s new and long-awaited Van Buren decision.

Joining Grosso on the panel will be:

  • Alan Butler, Executive Director and President of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Chair of the Privacy and Information Protection Committee of the ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice;
  • Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), where she previously served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel and represented Daniel J. Bernstein and EFF in Bernstein v. United States;
  • Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School and founder of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, founder of Equal Citizens and a founding board member of Creative Commons;
  • Mark Rasch, who has more than 30 years of experience in cybersecurity and data privacy, including within the US Department of Justice, where he created the DOJ Computer Crime Unit and Cyber-Forensics practice and prosecuted many early hacker cases; and
  • Eric Vandevelde, litigation partner at Gibson Dunn and a member of its White Collar Defense & Investigations, Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Crisis Management practice groups.

Register here.