Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA

Source: EFF· Andrew Crocker· August 4, 2026
Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA

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 th…

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