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Email Privacy Act, the Glossary

The Email Privacy Act is a bill introduced in the United States Congress.^[1]

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United States federal computing legislation
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Administrative subpoena

An administrative subpoena under U.S. law is a subpoena issued by a federal agency without prior judicial oversight.

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Adobe Inc.

Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Americans for Tax Reform

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is a politically conservative U.S. advocacy group whose stated goal is "a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today." According to ATR, "The government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax.

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Bill (law)

A bill is a proposal for a new law, or a proposal to significantly change an existing law.

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Bipartisanship

Bipartisanship, sometimes referred to as nonpartisanship, is a political situation, usually in the context of a two-party system (especially those of the United States and some other western countries), in which opposing political parties find common ground through compromise.

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Brennan Center for Justice

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is a liberal or progressive nonprofit law and public policy institute.

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Center for Democracy and Technology

Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation that advocates for digital rights and freedom of expression.

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Chuck Grassley

Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981.

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Cisco

Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Civil society

Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.

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Cloud storage

Cloud storage is a model of computer data storage in which data, said to be on "the cloud", is stored remotely in logical pools and is accessible to users over a network, typically the Internet.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Computer & Communications Industry Association

The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is an international non-profit advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, United States which represents the information and communications technology industries.

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Congress.gov

Congress.gov is the online database of United States Congress legislative information.

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Congressional Research Service

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress.

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Consumer Technology Association

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is a standard and trade organization representing 1,376 consumer technology companies in the United States.

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Counterterrorism

Counterterrorism (alternatively spelled: counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, relates to the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, businesses, and intelligence agencies use to combat or eliminate terrorism.

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Data & Marketing Association

The Data & Marketing Association formerly, Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is a trade organization for marketers.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a United States federal law enforcement agency, and is responsible for its day-to-day operations.

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Dropbox

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

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Electronic Communications Privacy Act

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) was enacted by the United States Congress to extend restrictions on government wire taps of telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer (et seq.), added new provisions prohibiting access to stored electronic communications, i.e., the Stored Communications Act (SCA, et seq.), and added so-called pen trap provisions that permit the tracing of telephone communications (et seq.). Email Privacy Act and electronic Communications Privacy Act are United States federal computing legislation and United States federal privacy legislation.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.

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Expectation of privacy (United States)

In United States constitutional law, expectation of privacy is a legal test which is crucial in defining the scope of the applicability of the privacy protections of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Federal Computer Week

Nextgov/FCW (launched as Federal Computer Week and later rebranded FCW) is a news website that covers U.S. federal government technology and occasionally state, local, tribal and international governments.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.

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FreedomWorks

FreedomWorks was a conservative and libertarian advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. FreedomWorks trained volunteers and assisted in campaigns.

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Gen Digital

Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic.

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Gibson Dunn

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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GovTrack

GovTrack.us is a website developed by then-student Joshua Tauberer.

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Heritage Action

Heritage Action, founded as Heritage Action for America, is a conservative advocacy organization founded in 2010.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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Internet Association

The Internet Association (IA) was an American lobbying group based in Washington, D.C., which represented companies involved in the Internet.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.

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Jared Polis

Jared Schutz Polis (born Jared Schutz May 12, 1975) is an American politician, entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist serving since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Colorado.

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Jeff Sessions

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018.

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John Cornyn

John Cornyn III (born February 2, 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and former jurist serving as the senior United States senator from Texas, a seat he has held since 2002.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kevin Yoder

Kevin Wayne Yoder (born January 8, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for from 2011 to 2019.

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Law of the United States

The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties.

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Law360

Law360 is a subscription-based, legal news service based in New York City.

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LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps.

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List of federal agencies in the United States

Legislative definitions of an agency of the federal government of the United States are varied, and even contradictory.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Mike Lee

Michael Shumway Lee (born June 4, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011.

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The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA 2019) is a United States federal law which specifies the budget, expenditures and policies of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for fiscal year 2019.

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New America (organization)

New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a liberal think tank in the United States founded in 1999.

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The News Media Alliance (formerly known as the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) until 2016;"" by Rick Edmonds, Poynter, September 7, 2016. stylized as News/Media Alliance) is a trade association representing approximately 2,000 news media organizations in the United States and in Canada.

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Niskanen Center

The Niskanen Center is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that advocates environmentalism, immigration reform, civil liberties, and strengthening social insurance around market-oriented principles.

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Party leaders of the United States Senate

The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and people of the party leadership of the United States Senate.

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Patrick Leahy

Patrick Joseph Leahy, (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023.

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Presidency of Barack Obama

Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Search warrant

A search warrant is a court order that a magistrate or judge issues to authorize law enforcement officers to conduct a search of a person, location, or vehicle for evidence of a crime and to confiscate any evidence they find.

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Statewatch

Statewatch is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 that monitors civil liberties and other issues in the European Union and encourages investigative reporting and research.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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United States Chamber of Commerce

The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is a business association advocacy group.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (in case citations, 6th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States House Committee on the Judiciary

The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, also called the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance

The Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance is a subcommittee within the House Judiciary Committee.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 21 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ), consider executive and judicial nominations, and review pending legislation.

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United States v. Warshak

United States v. Warshak, 631 F.3d 266 (6th Cir. 2010) is a criminal case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit holding that government agents violated the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by compelling his Internet service provider (ISP) to turn over his emails without first obtaining a search warrant based on probable cause.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Voice vote

In parliamentary procedure, a voice vote (from the Latin viva voce, meaning "by live voice") or acclamation is a voting method in deliberative assemblies (such as legislatures) in which a group vote is taken on a topic or motion by responding vocally.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_Privacy_Act

Also known as Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2015, H.R.1852.

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See also

United States federal computing legislation

United States federal privacy legislation

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