1 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Any fraudulent access is punishable by law. We know CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) the United States cybersecurity bill that was enacted in 1984 as an amendment to existing computer fraud law.
Aaron Swartz, who wrote in XML RSS, (RDF Site Summary) and rewrote Website Reddit in Python, was an activist and he would have been sentenced to 35 years in prison for CFAA, because he allegedly used a script to download scholarly research articles in excess of what JSTOR terms of service allowed.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the basic tool proposed by W3C for the coding, exchange and reuse of structured metadata and allows for semantic interoperability between applications that share information on the Web. It consists of two components:
· RDF Model and Syntax: exposes the structure of the RDF model, and describes a possible syntax.
· RDF Schema: exposes the syntax to define schemas and vocabularies for metadata.
The RDF Data Model is based on three key principles:
1. Anything can be identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
2. The least power: use the less expressive language to define anything.
3. Anything can say anything about anything.
2 Computer Misuse Act
In 1990 Parliament of United Kingdom introduced the Computer Misuse Act, the bill to punish any unauthorized access to computer material or its modification or to commit any criminal offence.The same bill inspired Canada and Eire Parliaments.
3 2013/40/EU
2013/40/EU is the europen directive to establish the minimum rules about the definition of criminal offences to information systems, which are essential for the maintenance of vital societal functions, health, safety, security, economic or social well-being of people, such as power plants, transport networks or government networks, and the disruption or destruction of which would have a significant impact in a Member State as a result of the failure to maintain those functions.