Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 2258E: Definitions

Civil

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This statute provides definitions for terms used in federal criminal procedure and electronic communications law, including 'attorney for the government,' 'electronic communication service,' 'Internet,' 'provider,' and 'website.'

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the terms “attorney for the government” and “State” have the meanings given those terms in rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; the term “electronic communication service” has the meaning given that term in section 2510; the term “electronic mail address” has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the CAN–SPAM Act of 2003 ( 15 U.S.C. 7702 ); the term “Internet” has the meaning given that term in section 1101 of the Internet Tax Freedom Act ( 47 U.S.C. 151 note); the term “remote computing service” has the meaning given that term in section 2711; the term “provider” means an electronic communication service provider or remote computing service; the term “NCMEC” means the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children; and the term “website” means any collection of material placed in a computer server-based file archive so that it is publicly accessible, over the Internet, using hypertext transfer protocol or any successor protocol.

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