Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...The definitions section supplies the meaning of the word "access" as used in the chapter: "`Access' means to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer, computer system, or computer network." § 815.03, Fla....

...ilar to the statute under which Joyner was charged. The chapter defines access as: to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer, computer system or computer network. § 815.03(10), Fla....

the question. 1 Story on Contracts (5th ed.), section 815; 3 Page on Contracts, p. 2163; Coles v. Peck,

...definition of "property" by removing reference to section 812.011, repealed by the Legislature in 1977. Ch. 77-342, § 16, Laws of Fla. "Property," for purposes of computer-related crimes under chapter 815, Florida Statutes (2009), is now defined in section 815.03(11), and includes, while not limited to, the following: financial instruments; information, including electronically produced data and computer software and programs in either machine-readable or human-readable form; and any other tangible or intangible item of value....

...nstructions. Data may be in any form, in storage media or stored in the memory of the computer, or in transit or presented on a display device. "Knowingly" means with full knowledge and intentionally. "Property" means anything of value as defined in s. 815.03(11) and includes, but is not limited to, financial instruments, information, including electronically produced data and computer software and programs in either machine-readable or human-readable form, and any other tangible or intangible item of value....

...arithmetic, data storage, retrieval, communication, or control. The term does not include calculators that are not programmable and that are not capable of being used in conjunction with external files. § 815.03, Fla....

...es if he or she willfully, knowingly, and without authorization: (a) Accesses or causes to be accessed any computer, computer system, computer network, or electronic device with knowledge that such access is unauthorized!)] The applicable version of section 815.03, effective October ■ 1, 2014, defines a computer network as ' a system that provides á medium for communication between one or more computer systems or electronic devices, including communication with an input or output device such as a display terminal, printer, or other electronic equipment that is connected to the computer systems or electronic devices by physical or wireless telecommunication facilities. § 815.03(4). “‘Access’ means to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer, computer system, or computer network.” § 815.03(1)....

...ction 815,06(l)(a), Florida Statutes (2013), 2 when the defendant accessed his ex-girlfriend’s Instagram account without permission and posted nude photos of her. 180. So.3d at 1126-27, The First District stated that the statute’s definitions in section 815.03 referred to tangible devices and-not the data located on the device....

...The defense argued that the State did not prove that his fetish was of a sexual nature or that the videos were lewd or lascivious; although the trial court found the conduct troubling and inappropriate, the trial court agreed with the defense and granted the motion on those two counts. . The prior version of section 815.03 that was applicable in Crapps defined a computer network as "any system that provides communications between one or more computer systems and its input or output devices, im eluding, but not limited to, display terminals and printers that are connected by telecommunication facilities,” § 815.03(4), Fla....

..... commits an offense against computer users.” Access is defined as *1212 “to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer, computer system, or computer network.” § 815.03(1)....