Between 1838 and 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split in three, in part over the issue of women's leadership, specifically Abby Kelley's appointment to the business committee. Radical abolitionists and women's rights supporters, known as Garrisonian abolitionists, remained in the American Anti-Slavery Society.
In 1964, research by Grey Walter and colleagues began the modern era of ERP component discoveries when they reported the first cognitive ERP component, called the contingent negative variation (CNV). Sutton, Braren, and Zubin (1965) made another advancement with the discovery of the P3 component.
The Electronic Communication Privacy (ECPA) of 1986 creates limited statutory privacy rights for Internet users. First enacted in 1968, the law originally sought to prevent wiretapping by determining limits on electronic surveillance. By 1986, growing federal concern about privacy in an age of new communication technology led to a major overhaul.