Complex sentence: ECPA, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1986 to extend government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer.
Split into simpler sentences: ECPA, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1986. ECPA extended the Wire Tap Statute to include transmissions of electronic data by computer.