Records
Under section 815 of the Patriot Act, an additional defense was added against civil actions where it is alleged that there were unlawful violations of access to stored communications and the interception of communications. It allows an ISP to show a good faith reliance on requests from a governmental entity that orders them to preserve records and other evidence in its possession pending the issuance of a court order or other process.
Read more about this topic: USA PATRIOT Act, Title VIII
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—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
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—John Berger (b. 1926)
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—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)