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From: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [comp.admin.policy...] Re: E-mail Privacy
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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