Question: In what year was Lori Drew aquitted of violations against the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

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Suicide of Megan Meier: Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who committed suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday.  A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through the social networking website MySpace.  Lori Drew, the mother of a friend of Meier, was indicted on the matter in 2008, but was acquitted in the 2009 case "United States v. Drew".

United States v. Drew: United States v. Drew is the final decision in a criminal case that charged Lori Drew of violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) over the alleged cyberbullying of a 13-year-old, Megan Meier, who committed suicide.  The federal district court vacated the jury's verdict convicting Drew of a misdemeanor violation of the CFAA.

United States v. Nosal: United States v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (9th Cir.  2012) was a United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision dealing with the scope of criminal prosecutions of former employees under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).  The Ninth Circuit's first ruling ("Nosal I") established that employees have not "exceeded authorization" for the purposes of the CFAA if they access a computer in a manner that violates the company's computer use policies—if they are authorized to access the computer and do not circumvent any protection mechanisms.

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was enacted by Congress in 1986 as an amendment to existing computer fraud law (), which had been included in the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.  The law prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization.

Computer fraud: Computer fraud is the act of using a computer to take or alter electronic data, or to gain unlawful use of a computer or system.  In the United States, computer fraud is specifically proscribed by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which criminalizes computer-related acts under federal jurisdiction.  Types of computer fraud include:

United States v. Swartz: In United States of America v. Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for many violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading a great many academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source (JSTOR) for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.  Facing trial and the possibility of imprisonment, Swartz committed suicide, and the case was consequently dismissed.

Morris worm: The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet.  It was the first to gain significant mainstream media attention.  It also resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.  It was written by a graduate student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from the computer systems of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In re DoubleClick: In re DoubleClick Inc.  Privacy Litigation, 154 F. Supp.  2d 497 (S.D.N.Y. 2001) (""DoubleClick""), had Internet users initiate proceedings against DoubleClick, alleging that DoubleClick's placement of web cookies on computer hard drives of Internet users who accessed DoubleClick-affiliated web sites constituted violations of three federal laws: The Stored Communications Act, the Wiretap Statute and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

United States v. Morris (1991): United States v. Morris was an appeal of the conviction of Robert Tappan Morris for creating and releasing the Morris worm, one of the first Internet-based worms.  This case resulted in the first conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.  In the process, the dispute clarified much of the language used in the law, which had been heavily revised in a number of updates passed in the years after its initial drafting.  Also clarified was the concept of "unauthorized access," which is central in the United States' computer security laws.  The decision was the first by a U.S. court to refer to "the Internet", which it described simply as "a national computer network."

Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc.: Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc. is a lawsuit brought by Facebook in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that Power Ventures Inc., a third-party platform, collected user information from Facebook and displayed it on their own website.  Facebook claimed violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"), and the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act.  According to Facebook, Power Ventures Inc. made copies of Facebook’s website during the process of extracting user information.  Facebook argued that this process causes both direct and indirect copyright infringement.  In addition, Facebook alleged this process constitutes a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA").  Finally, Facebook also asserted claims of both state and federal trademark infringement, as well as a claim under California's Unfair Competition Law ("UCL").

Supporting paragraphs: United States v. Drew Suicide of Megan Meier
Answer: 2009