Computer Fraud Act Aids in Trade Secret Protection

Peter J. Toren, a partner at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, writes that courts are increasingly reluctant to find that the CFAA is a replacement for a federal trade secrets act, even where the theft involves electronic information. General counsel should institute a trade secret protection program that includes steps that will increase the possibility that a federal court will find jurisdiction under the CFAA in the unfortunate, but increasingly likely, event that an employee does steal a company's trade secrets.

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