SERVICE PROVIDER
LIABILITY
Privacy of Communications: Discussion
● Electronic Communications
Privacy Act
The
Electronic
Communications Privacy Act gives e-mail the same kind of privacy as
"regular mail."
[whoever] takes any letter .. out of any post office or any authorized depository for
mail matter, or from any mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized
depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered
to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to
pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroy the
same...
E-Law
3.0.1. citing Mail, U.S.C. §1702.
Section 2 of this Act provides an exception for System Operators and their employees to
the extent necessary to manage the computer information system. Section 2701 prohibits
unlawful access to communications which are stored on a computer.E-Law
3.0.1.
● Presidential Records Act
Another act, the
Presidential
Records Act, requires that all records classified as Presidential Records be
preserved for historical purposes. And, the
Federal
Records Act requires that each agency preserve records regarding actions of the
agency.
E-Law
3.0.1.
● Federal Records Act
Requires that each agency preserve records regarding actions of the
agency.
E-Law
3.0.1. referring to Federal Records Act.
Service Provider Liability Pages
Introduction •
Table of Contents
Servcie Providers - Overview • Service Providers - Discussion • Liability Analogies - Overview • Liability Analogies - Discussion • Defamation - Overview • Defamation - Discussion • Intellectual Property - Overview • Intellectual Property - Discussion • Obscenity - Overview • Obscenity - Discussion • Criminal - Overview • Criminal Discussion • Privacy - Overview • Privacy - Discussion • Policy Discussion • Conclusion • Pocket Part • Notes & Links
Prepared for
Professor Laura
Gasaway's Cyberspace Law Seminar (Law
- 357C)
UNC School of Law - Spring 1997
By: Ashe Lockhart
(Webmaster) & Carol Kozar
Instructor:
Laura N. Gasaway,
Professor of Law and Director of the Katherine
R. Everett Law Library
Copyright © 1997 Ashe
Lockhart & Carol Kozar
