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New Law Offers Easy Listening
Corn, Robert | December 20, 1986 issue

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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on October 21. The act revises Title Ill of the 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, better known as the Federal wiretap law. For two years, civil liberties and industry groups as well as journalists urged the Congress to update the law because it failed to account for new communications technologies, particularly those relying on radio or computer transmissions. The new law applies to computer and other electronic communications, cellular telephone calls and stored data.

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TELECOMMUNICATION -- Law & legislation; REAGAN, Ronald; PRESIDENTS -- United States; WIRETAPPING; RADIO lines; TELEPHONE calls; UNITED States
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