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    The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was a pretty progressive law at the time it was enacted. It enhanced the privacy protection that was originally delineated in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by also adding communication protection for pagers, email, cell phones, service providers, and computer transmissions. The ECPA addressed the legal privacy issues that were surfacing with the rising use of networks, computers and other new innovations in electronic communications

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    The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a United States government statute that denies an outsider from blocking or uncovering interchanges without approval. Foundation: The Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Stored Wire Electronic Communications Act are generally alluded together as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986. The ECPA refreshed the Federal Wiretap Act of 1968, which tended to block attempt of discussions utilizing "hard" phone lines, yet did

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    Electronic and Communication Privacy Act of 1986 We are all familiar with the phrase, "A little birdie told me." But where did that birdie get his information? If he was like most Mockingbirds in the sky, his information was probably obtained through eavesdropping, which is not an ethical approach. This day and age with technology becoming more and more effective everyday it is not the birds that we have to worry about. Congress has recognized the way that technology has changed society

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    The Electronic Communication Privacy Act,1986 The Electronic Communication Privacy Act,1986 was initially n amendment of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Title III) which was also referred to as Wiretap Statute. This was an act that was intended to stop government illegal access to the private electronic communications. With the emergence of other means of electronic communication like the internet, there was a growing tendency of the government agencies to sneak into

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    The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”) was passed in 1986 to update the 1968 Title III Wiretap Act, the federal statute that first prohibited the actual or intentional interception communications without judicial authorization (Wiretap Act, 1968). The 1968 act only concerned wire and oral communications; a wire communication was defined as “any communication made in whole or in part through the use of [common carrier] facilities for the [interstate or foreign] transmission of communications

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    The Electronic Communication Privacy Act is protection against the illegal interception of citizens’ digital communication methods. The act establishes and restricts access to electronic means of communicating and prohibits the authorization of the government and employers to do so without given consent. Although the act establishes protection to citizens against illegal interception people should take into account for what and from whom they send out their information. There are many problems with

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    employers are now able to store access and monitor employees’ actions on company computing systems. In 1986, The Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA) was introduced which disallow the intentional interception of “any wire, oral or electronic communication”, it provides an exemption that permits right to monitor employees in the course of business (Beesley, 2012). According to the act, if the employee is using equipment owned by the employer then employer is allowed to monitor an employee’s use

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    Electronic communication privacy act • The government has set new standards to obtain digital information of citizens introduced in 1986. The law has not changed, but the technology dramatically. ( 'US public-private partnership for cyber-security ', 2010). The government has privilege to get electronic data without needing a warrant. Some sort of movement launched against it to bring a small variation, but the debate is still going on. Cyber intelligence sharing and protection act • This law

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    The electronics communications privacy act is something I find very disturbing and it has affected me personally in a work situation. At the time the man I was working for was a licensee for a larger franchise and was going through a legal dispute at the corporate office. I emailed the owner from my work email when the evidence of my boss’s demise was clear in hopes to ensure my future with the company was in place. When I arrived at work the next morning the licensee holder and my boss had already

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    cell phones such as finding friends, family members, maps and places to visit. Furthermore, cell phone GPS have proven useful in saving lives during emergencies. In this matter, it is important to mention that the United States of America Federal Communications Commission have made a E-911 application and E112 in Europe which requires cell phone companies to provide an accurate location of a cell phone user who calls for emergency help. However, the location of the cell phone user must be released

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