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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Request: Info about ECPA (was Freedom of Information Act)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.153856.25087@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <!lqxcya@rpi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:38:56 GMT
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- aultj@rpi.edu (Jim Ault) writes:
-
- >There have been some inquiries at my university concerning the Freedom
- >of Information Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
-
- >Specifically, I would like to know to what extent the FOIA applies to
- >a private university, such as ours. The director of our computer
- >center is aware that people consider their email private, and wants to
- >know if this assumption can be supported.
- [...]
-
- Unless your university has its own FOIA, no FOIA will apply. The
- ECPA might, however apply.
-
- - Carl
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- law/ecpa.1986
- =================
- Portions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) related
- to e-mail privacy.
-
- =================
- law/ecpa.1986.godwin
- =================
- Mike Godwin, legal staff for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- says that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) could be
- reasonably construed to protect university email.
-
- =================
- =================
-
- These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/law/ecpa.1986
- pub/academic/law/ecpa.1986.godwin
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom/law ecpa.1986
- send acad-freedom/law ecpa.1986.godwin
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-