---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 1004"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "1004"
heading: "Systems security and integrity"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/1004"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Interception of Digital and Other Communications"
  - "Subchapter I — Interception of Digital and Other Communications"
---

# §1004. Systems security and integrity


A [telecommunications carrier](/usc/47/1001.md?p=8) shall ensure that any interception of communications or access to [call-identifying information](/usc/47/1001.md?p=2) effected within its switching premises can be activated only in accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization and with the affirmative intervention of an individual officer or employee of the carrier acting in accordance with regulations prescribed by the [Commission](/usc/47/1001.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–414, title I, § 105, Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4283.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 4 years after Oct. 25, 1994, see section 111(b) of Pub. L. 103–414, set out as a note under section 1001 of this title.