Electronic Communications Privacy Act

(redirected from ECPA)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Acronyms, Encyclopedia.
Related to ECPA: ECPS

Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Legislation in the United States, passed in 1986, that protects most communication sent over a computer network from search or seizure without a warrant. The Act requires law enforcement officials to abide by the same requirements for computer communications as they do for telephone communications. Exemptions established by the Act, such as access to records kept by service providers, have proven controversial.
Farlex Financial Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All Rights Reserved
References in periodicals archive ?
As an ECPA unit has the goal of statistically exploit single-cycle operation latency, the introduction of pipelined operations may result in relatively low effectiveness at the expense of a pipeline register delay overhead.
A general design methodology for synchronous early-completion-prediction adders in nano-CMOS DSP architectures
If a magistrate judge issued an ECPA order (302) that
Litigating Data Sovereignty
to amend the ECPA. The House Judiciary Committee unanimously voted it
Where in the World is Your Data? Who Can Access It?
(85) Because ECPA NSLs so frequently target speech, this inquiry is especially important, but the FBI's position remains unclear.
Process without procedure: national security letters and First Amendment rights
company domiciled in the United States, Google must comply with ECPA,
Against data exceptionalism
(14.) Modernizing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), American Civil Liberties Union, https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/modernizing-electronic-communications- privacy-act-ecpa (last visited Dec.
Downloading the latest protection updates: regularly updating the Stored Communications Act
distinctions the New York courts (and the ECPA) have made with respect
Show me the warrant: protection of stored electronic communications in New York State
(19.) Bureau of Justice Assistance, The ECPA, ISPs & Obtaining E-mail: A Primer for Local Prosecutors 9 (2005), available at http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/ecpa_isps_obtaining_email_05 .pdf.
Privacy in the workplace, fact or fiction, and the value of an authorized use policy (AUP)
In recent years, ECPA has become widely perceived as outdated.
The next generation Communications Privacy Act
Regarding statutory law, the ECPA governs law enforcement access to e-mails.
Cloud computing, social media, and confidentiality
government surveillance subject to ECPA is a rare occurrence: for the
A lot more than a pen register, and less than a wiretap: what the StingRay teaches us about how Congress should approach the reform of law enforcement surveillance authorities
of the ECPA. The law makes it a crime to purposely intercept or attempt
Clouded computing: the foggy application of the Fourth Amendment in technology
Financial browser ?
Full browser ?