Law / United States / 
Maine
Criminal invasion of computer privacy
In force since .
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not intentionally access a Maine-connected computer resource while knowing you are not authorized to do so; the statute states a bare authorization test with no separate requirement of malicious intent, deception, or resulting damage.
- A violation is a Class D crime, carrying imprisonment of less than one year and a fine of up to $2,000.
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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
- GAI-RISK-09Information Security
- GAI-RISK-12Value Chain and Component Integration
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- LLM03:2026Excessive Agency
- OWASP Agentic Top 10
- ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-018Agent Authority Least Privilege Framework
- AIR-PREV-023Agentic System Credential Protection Framework
- 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. 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 invasion of computer privacy under 17-A M.R.S. § 432 is a Class D crime, punishable by imprisonment of less than one year (17-A M.R.S. § 1604(1)(D)) and a fine of up to $2,000 (17-A M.R.S. § 1704(4)).
Penalty structure
Maximum fine for a Class D crime under 17-A M.R.S. § 1704(4); the statute also authorizes imprisonment of less than one year under § 1604(1)(D).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Fixed cap
- 2,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 432 makes it an offence to intentionally access a computer resource knowing the access is not authorized, a Class D crime. It imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record and states no territorial clause, so no hook is recorded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A person is guilty of criminal invasion of computer privacy, a Class D crime, if the person intentionally accesses any computer resource knowing that the person is not authorized to do so. The statute states a bare authorization test with no separate requirement of malicious intent, deception, or resulting damage, so an intentional, knowing, unauthorized access alone completes the offense; no exception for a publicly accessible page is stated in the text.
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