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From: peterm%halcyon.uucp@seattleu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: future trends
Keywords: ECPA
Message-ID: <7Hcus2w163w@halcyon.uucp>
Date: 18 Nov 90 16:47:41 GMT
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Replying to Bill Bogstad's 11/17 post--
The ECPA was passed in 1986. Not only is much of its language pretty 
broad, which seems not atypical in such critters, but there have been 
very few cases under the statute. Yet, although the Epson case may 
currently be the most well-known of e-mail privacy cases, there are 
others. One of these was brought recently in WA state--WA Fed. of State
Employees v. Dept. of Labor & Industries--and, like the Epson case, 
involves state law.
It might be noted that, for such cases, state laws and state 
constitutions can often be more viable than the Fed. stuff.