Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA
Posted by PrivacyWire
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a law not usually given to such interpretation. Amazon had sued Perplexity AI to try to shut down its Comet browser, claiming the browser’s optional agentic AI “Assistan