NATHAN VAN BUREN, Petitioner v. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. 374

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HOLDINGS: [1]-18 U.S.C.S. § 1030(e)(6) covered those who obtained information from particular areas in the computer, such as files, folders, or databases, to which their computer access did not extend. It did not cover those who had improper motives for obtaining information that was otherwise available to them; [2]-Since the parties agreed that a police officer was allowed to use the system to retrieve license-plate information, he did not exceed authorized access to the database, as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 defined that phrase, even though he had obtained information from the database for an improper purpose.