Claridge v. RockYou, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the express provisions of defendant’s privacy policy, which waived liability for unauthorized access of personal information on secure servers, implied a contract to protect that data on unsecured servers
• noting that the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act does not extend to those “who took no active role in tampering with, or in gaining unauthorized access to computer systems”
• noting the cases interpreting the statute impose 16 liability against individuals or entities who are alleged to 17 have actually participated in unauthorized “hacking”’ or the 18 unlawful disclosure of information
• refusing “to impose liability on defendant for third party hackers’ unauthorized access”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).