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¶ … Electronic Privacy Control Act of 1986 address?
The ECPA addressed a variety of issues regarding the collection of information by government agencies using electronic devices. For instance, it placed more restrictions on wire tapping, such as the transmission of data via computer. It also addressed issues regarding the retrieval of data stored on a drive and the use of pen traps for tracing phone calls.
In actuality, however, the Act addressed the needs of government agencies to have permission to tap into communications and stored data files of networks and providers. The Act allowed such agencies to request warrants to obtain such information by broadening the list of crimes for which said collection methods could be lawfully used. So while technically the Act was said to place new limits on law enforcement "snooping," it actually expanded those limits in terms of the justification that could be used to request a warrant.
How many titles are there in the Act?
There were 3 titles in ECPA: Title I, or the Wiretap Act; Title II, or the Stored Communications Act; and Title III, or the Pen Register Act, which addressed the lawful usage of pen registers, traps, and tracing devices.
3. Explain what each of the titles covers.
Title I, or the Wiretap Act, covered the prohibition of any "procurement" of any kind (intentional, attempted, actual), or of any attempt to intercept "any wire, oral, or electronic communication" (ECPA, 1986). Also prohibited is the use as evidence of any such illegally procured communication.
Title II, or the Stored Communications Act, covers the protection of service providers' stored files...
These devices do not record actual communications, only the origin/destination of the second party. Nonetheless, a court order must be obtained by the agency wishing to employ such technology in the gathering of information pertaining to a subject under surveillance. The agency must certify that the data to be collected is important to the investigation of the said subject.
4. List any exceptions and amendments to the original Act of 1986.
Exceptions to Title I consist of the following: Operators and providers who are required to collect information as part of the normal procedure of business are exempted. Also, operators authorized to intercept by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) are exempted. Also, officers of Federal, State and other levels are supplied a procedure for obtaining the authority to intercept by a judge who can provide a warrant good for 30 days, provided the officer shows that there exists a probable cause that the tap will turn up crucial evidence of a "particular offense" as stated in Section 2516 (ECPA, 1986).
The ECPA was amended in 1994 by the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and again in 2001 by the U.S.A. Patriot Act, and again in 2006 by the U.S.A. Patriot Reauthorization Acts as well as by, in 2008,…
References
ECPA. (1986). Cornell University Law School. Retrieved from https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-119
Helft, M., Miller, C. (2011). 1986 Privacy Law is Outrun by the Web. New York Times.
Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10privacy.html?hp&_r=0
Introduction to ECPA. (2015). Electronic Privacy Information Center. Retrieved from https://epic.org/privacy/ecpa/
Retrieved from https://it.ojp.gov/PrivacyLiberty/authorities/statutes/1285
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