kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) (05/24/91)
Archive-name: legal/privacy/ecpa-1986/1991-05-23 Archive: eff.org:/academic/ecpa.1986 [192.88.144.3] Original-posting-by: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Original-subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) >kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes: >>The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1976 protects e-mail. ^^^ typo, that should be "1986" mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: > Not to my knowledge. It "protects" cellular phones (if something >can be said to be "protected" by deterrence) because they are a service >provided by a common carrier - I don't believe it says anything about >e-mail at all. The ECPA of 1986 explicitly protects e-mail privacy. (It also, of course, tries to protect cellular telephone privacy.) Excerpts of the e-mail-related sections are available via anonymous ftp from eff.org in file academic/ecpa.1986. - Carl -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- comp.archives file verification eff.org -rw-r--r-- 1 126 126 128606 May 10 01:01 /academic/ecpa.1986 found ecpa-1986 ok eff.org:/academic/ecpa.1986