FILE - Int his June 17. 2009, file photo, former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano is shown in court in Los Angeles. It’s clearly illegal to hack into someone else’s computer network and steal information from it. But what about a police officer who uses his own department’s computer database to look up women from his past? Or employees who use their log-in credentials to download confidential information from their employer? The issue surfaced in August 2105 when the California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out computer access charges against Anthony Pellicano, a Hollywood private eye who wiretapped phones for celebrity clients to dig up dirt on rivals, and several of his alleged conspirators. The court upheld most of the convictions in the case but found that the jury had been given improper instructions on the law. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)