The judge declared the portion of the Stored Communications Act allowing this disclosure to be unconstitutional.
Until then, they can always just read the Communications Act of 1934 to bolster their sense of security.
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But under the 1996 Communications Act, the FCC has almost no authority to regulate Internet access or content.
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Frank Mulholland's comments came in wake of statistics on how the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act was being used.
Facebook is also required to protect us thanks to the Stored Communications Act, added to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in 1986.
If so--and if Congress determines some form of Internet regulation is needed--the FCC should amend the Communications Act to adopt the competition-based approach recommended here.
Stored Communications Act, the government (including the IRS) can look at your emails without a warrant as long as they are six months back or older.
We can quibble about how much the Clinton-Gore policies and related legislation, including the largely-deregulatory 1996 Communications Act, actually contributed to the growth of the Internet ecosystem.
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The man was arrested under the Malicious Communications Act and was also held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence of intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress.
Twitter's lawyers argued that the judge had misunderstood how the service worked, noting that the Stored Communications Act gave its members the right to challenge requests for information on their user history.
He went on to say that the Communications Act, passed by the previous Labour government, required the telecoms regulator to ensure that all holders of broadcast licences were fit and proper at all times.
They were able to do this because of the 1986 Stored Communications Act, which allows the government to seize any emails stored for more than 180 days with just a court order or a subpoena.
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The federal Stored Communications Act allows for such disclosure if the individual party agrees to it, if it is requested by law enforcement agencies investigating a crime or by court orders in ongoing criminal investigations.
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The main law controlling phone tapping in Britain is the Interception of Communications Act, which the then Conservative government was forced to introduce in 1985, after a case at the European Court of Human Rights.
Although it said that there was some evidence to warrant further investigation of offences under the Data Protection Act, the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and the Communications Act 2003, it added that this would not take place as any potential prosecution would not be in the public interest.
That privacy violation, the lawsuit alleges, breaches the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, among other statutes.
Three federal laws -- the Privacy Protection Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Cable Communication Provider Act -- overlap and contradict one another in protecting Internet users' identities and personal information.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) strictly prohibits the interception of content and traffic data and limits access to stored communications (such as emails).
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In fact, the judge ruled on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act - sponsored by Sen.
Waxman went before the U.S. Supreme Court last week to praise the Communications Decency Act, not to bury it.
One of the fundamental rules of crisis communications is act decisively and rapidly.
Congress passed the Communications Decency Act of 1996, but that basically immunizes these Web sites from lies that are posted by their users.
That decision is the first to rule on this set of facts in the context of the now-ancient Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).
Congress added a splash of impunity to the mix in 1996, when it passed a pro-Internet law known as the Communications Decency Act.
In 1986, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated federal wiretapping law in an effort to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of cell phone users.
As Judge Smith pointed out, the plaintiff lawyers sued under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and other laws that prohibit the unauthorized release of personal information.
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Under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a file stored on a hard drive in your home has greater protection than information stored with a third-party.
The prime target of the protest is the Communications Decency Act , the part of the telecom bill that would outlaw the transmission of sexually explicit materials to minors.
Bankston, a free-speech advocate for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, cites a provision in the Communications Decency Act stating that communication services aren't responsible for the speech that they enable.
Still there are signs of bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for updates to Fourth Amendment law, which hasn't undergone a serious overhaul since the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.
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