[johnnyapol]

> A more analogous example to the case at hand would be an employee at Google/Humana/Tinder selling your private details to a third party. This ruling means that such activity is perfectly legal, even if the terms of their employment state the opposite.

No, this isn't what this means at all. This ruling just means you haven't committed a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing that data if you didn't "hack" to get access to it. Depending on the information you sold, you could've violated other laws and you definitely violated the Non-Disclosure agreement you signed with those companies.

For reference, the cop in this case had other convictions under wire fraud laws that weren't changed by this.