Electronic Communications Privacy Act

To prevent harm from being done, the U.S. Department of of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and Bureau of Justice Assistance enacted several laws to protect the people. One of these is titled, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, commonly known as ECPA of 1986. It protects, “wire, oral, and electronic communications while those communications are being made, are in transit, and when they are stored on computers” (Justice Information Sharing). In other words, it states that person’s electronic communications is protected from being impeded by a private individual (who is eavesdropping through the use of wiretapping). Many children at the age of 13 can create any type of social media account (with the consent of the parent), however, many