Use and Disclosure Limit -- Telephone/Email/Internet Content

Intercepting of communications is a crime. With certain exceptions, service providers cannot collect information about the content of their subscribers' communications. Therefore, service providers generally have nothing about their subscribers' communications that they can reuse or disclose.

• Real-Time Interception: Sections 2511(1)(c) and 2511(1)(d) prohibit the intentional use and disclosure of any real-time wire, oral or electronic communications if the person knows or has reason to know it was illegally intercepted, but 2511(2) contains a variety of exceptions.
   
• Access to Stored Communications: Section 2702 prohibits the disclosure of stored communications (with certain exceptions).