When phishing for solutions to online crime, lawmakers are bound to reel in two favorites: expanding statutory definitions of criminality, and broadening prosecutorial powers. Senator Leahy proposes the former (S. 2636), but amendments in committee would likely incorporate the later, as well as a few Federal Trade Commission rulemakings, and maybe even a GAO study. [...]
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