Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 626A > ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SERVICE; REMOTE COMPUTING SERVICE

• Communications common carrier: means any individual, partnership, corporation, or association which provides telephone or telegraph service to subscribers or users pursuant to tariffs on file with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission or the Federal Communications Commission. See Minnesota Statutes 626A.01
• Contents: when used with respect to any wire, electronic, or oral communication, includes any information concerning the substance, purport, or meaning of that communication. See Minnesota Statutes 626A.01
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Electronic communication: means transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or photooptical system but does not include:

  (1) a wire or oral communication;

  (2) a communication made through a tone-only paging device; or

  (3) a communication from a tracking device, defined as an electronic or mechanical device which permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object. See Minnesota Statutes 626A.01

• Electronic communication service: means a service that provides to users of the service the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications. See Minnesota Statutes 626A.01
• Electronic storage: means :

  (1) a temporary, intermediate storage of a wire or electronic communication incidental to the electronic transmission of the communication; and

  (2) a storage of communication described in clause (1) by an electronic communication service for purposes of backup protection of the communication. See Minnesota Statutes 626A.01

• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, joint stock company, trust, or association, including but not limited to, the subscriber to the telephone or telegraph service involved and any law enforcement officer. See Minnesota Statutes 626A.01
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• User: means a person or entity who:

  (1) uses an electronic communication service; and

  (2) is duly authorized by the provider of the service to engage in the use. See Minnesota Statutes 626A.01