Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1437
It is a pleasure to be here today to participate in a discussion about the future of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”). Now in its thirtieth year, the CFAA has never been more important or controversial than it is today.
As a nation, we are under siege from cybercriminals who are leveraging the power of the internet to commit crime on an unprecedented scale, costing our economy more than one hundred billion dollars each year.
These staggering economic losses often overshadow the threat these crimes pose to our personal privacy.
We ignore this threat at our peril.
