The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 required the communications industry to build tools into its products that federal investigators could use-after obtaining a court order-to eavesdrop on conversations and intercept electronic communications.

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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 primarily aimed to extend government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer, but it did not require the communications industry to build eavesdropping tools into their products.

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