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Law / United States / Alaska

Criminal use of a computer

Alaska Stat. Sec. 11.46.740

In force.

A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Access restriction
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not access, or exceed authorized access to, a computer, computer system, program, or network you have no right, or no reasonable belief of a right, to use.NIST AI RMFMAP 4.1
  • Do not use unauthorized access to obtain information concerning a person, another person's proprietary information, or information the source makes available to the public only for a fee.NIST AI RMFMAP 4.1
  • Do not introduce false information into, or tamper with, disrupt, or disable, a computer, computer system, program, or network you access without a right to do so.no control in the NIST AI RMF

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
NIST AI 600-1
OWASP LLM Top 10
OWASP Agentic Top 10
  • ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 2.1Model & Infrastructure Security
  • 3.2Data Governance
NIST Privacy Framework
  • CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.

Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST AI RMF, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law

Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Criminal use of a computer is a class C felony under AS 11.46.740(c). The offense carries a single penalty tier; the statute assigns no lesser degree for a smaller-scale or lower-value violation.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Alaska Stat. 11.46.740 makes criminal use of a computer a class C felony when a person without a right to do so knowingly accesses, or exceeds authorized access to, a computer or network and, as a result, obtains information, introduces false information, obtains proprietary information, tampers with the system, or encrypts or decrypts data. It also makes installing or using a keystroke logger to record another person's keystrokes an offense. Those are prohibitions on conduct, and the section imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record. It names no territorial hook.

Kind
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As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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A person commits criminal use of a computer if, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe the person has such a right, the person knowingly accesses, causes to be accessed, or exceeds the person's authorized access to a computer, computer system, computer program, or computer network and, as a result, obtains information concerning a person, obtains proprietary information of another person, obtains information that is only available to the public for a fee, introduces false information, or tampers with, disrupts, disables, or destroys a computer, computer system, program, or network.

The offense also reaches installing or using a keystroke logger to record another person's keystrokes without authorization. Criminal use of a computer is a class C felony, a single penalty tier with no lesser degree for a smaller-scale violation. The codified text's history note names ch. 79, Session Laws of Alaska 1984, as the enacting act, later amended by ch. 65, SLA 2000, and ch. 20, SLA 2011, but the note states no day, and no day on which the section came into force has been located.

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