Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986

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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) is a U.S. civil rights law enacted by the United States Congress to extend government restrictions on interception of telephone calls to the transmission of electronic data by computer, new provisions prohibiting it access to stored electronic communications and add so-called "pen trap" provisions ( pen register ) that enable the tracing of telephone calls.

The ECPA was an amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which was primarily designed to prevent unauthorized government access to private electronic communications. The ECPA was amended by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) of 1994, the USA PATRIOT Act (2001), the USA PATRIOT reauthorization acts (2006), and the FISA Amendments Act (2008).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Office of Justice Programs (OJP), US Department of Justice (DOJ) . Accessed in 2013.
  2. ↑ Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The concept of consent in reality under data protection law . Mohr Siebeck, 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154062-2 ( google.de [accessed on February 29, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Pam Dixon: Surveillance in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and the Law [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and the Law . ABC-CLIO, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4408-4055-5 ( google.de [accessed February 29, 2020]).