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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court
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the FISA, this court meets in secret to hear applications for orders
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approving electronic surveillance anywhere within the United
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States.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
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deals with the protection of three main issues: (1) the protection
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of communications while in transfer from sender to receiver; (2)
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the protection of communications held in electronic storage; and
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(3) the prohibition of devices from recording dialing, routing,
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addressing, and signaling information without a search warrant.
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National Security Letter (NSL) Compels holders of your
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personal records to turn them over to the government; an NSL is
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not subject to judicial review or oversight.
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pen registeri,- A device that records electronic impulses to
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identify the numbers dialed for outgoing calls
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, trap and tracei,- A device that records the originating number
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of incoming calls for a particular phone number.
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Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,-i,-
An act passed in 1994 that amended the Wiretap Act and
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Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which required the
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telecommunications industry to build tools into its products that i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,-
federal investigators could use—after obtaining a court order—to
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communications
USA PATRIOT Acti,- An act passed 5 weeks after the terrorist i,- i,-i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,- i,-
attacks of September 11, 2001. It gave sweeping new powers
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both to domestic law enforcement and U.S. international
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intelligence agencies, including increasing the ability of law
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NSL gag provision
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recipients from informing anyone, even the person who is the
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subject of the NSL request, that the government has secretly
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requested his or her records. i,- i,- i,- i,-