service provider
Defined in 6 places across 4 titles of the United States Code.
As used in subsection (a), the term “service provider” means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user’s choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.
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- 2026–present17 U.S.C. § 512Copyrights · Limitations on liability relating to material online · under this section
As used in this section, other than subsection (a), the term “service provider” means a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, and includes an entity described in subparagraph (A).
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- 1999–present17 U.S.C. § 512Copyrights · Limitations on liability relating to material online · as used in this section
Service provider.—(A) As used in subsection (a), the term “service provider” means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.
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- 1999–202617 U.S.C. § 512Copyrights · Limitations on liability relating to material online · under this section
The term “service provider” means a public agency, private nonprofit organization, or private-for-profit entity that delivers educational, training, or employment services.
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- 1994–present29 U.S.C. § 1651Labor · 1651 to 1653. Repealed. Pub. L. 105220, title I, 199(b)(2), Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1059 · for the purposes of this subchapter
The term "service provider" means an entity selected under this part to provide services described in this part to a Job Corps center.
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- 2014–present29 U.S.C. § 3192Labor · Definitions · in this part
The term “service provider” means an entity selected under this subchapter to provide services described in this subchapter to a Job Corps center.
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- 1998–present29 U.S.C. § 2882Labor · Definitions · in this subchapter
The term "service provider" means an entity that—
(A) collects, processes, or transfers data on behalf of, and at the direction of—
(i) an individual or entity that is not a foreign adversary country or controlled by a foreign adversary; or
(ii) a Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, or local government entity; and
(B) receives data from or on behalf of an individual or entity described in subparagraph (A)(i) or a Federal, State, Tribal, territorial, or local government entity.
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- 2024–present15 U.S.C. § 9901Commerce and Trade · Prohibition on transfer of personally identifiable sensitive data of United States individuals to foreign adversaries · in this section
The term “service provider” means any person that provides a material service to a covered person in connection with the offering or provision by such covered person of a consumer financial product or service, including a person that—
(i) participates in designing, operating, or maintaining the consumer financial product or service; or
(ii) processes transactions relating to the consumer financial product or service (other than unknowingly or incidentally transmitting or processing financial data in a manner that such data is undifferentiated from other types of data of the same form as the person transmits or processes).
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- 2010–present12 U.S.C. § 5481Banks and Banking · Definitions · in this title