The World's First Space Crime? IN SPACE! (Real Law Review)

In space, no one can hear you commit... identity theft.
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Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer, has accused her ex-spouse, Anne McClain, a decorated NASA astronaut, of identity theft and improper access to private financial records.

When Worden became suspicious of McClain, she asked her bank to trace the location of any computers that had recently accessed her bank account using her own login credentials. One, it turned out, was in outer space aboard the International Space Station.

Acknowledge that she had indeed accessed Worden’s account while in outer space, McClain defended her actions and claimed that she was merely taking care of the couple’s intermingled finances.

Nonetheless, Worden filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and her family filed yet another with NASA’s Office of the Inspector General. Both could be historic in that they contain the first allegation of criminal wrongdoing in space.

What happens when a crime is committed in space? Who has jurisdiction? Who are the space police? Where is space jail?

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