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September 02, 2003
Privacy Groups File Brief in Supreme Court Privacy Act Case
EPIC, CDT and other privacy groups filed a "friend of the court" brief in the US Supreme Court arguing that the federal Privacy Act authorizes citizens to collect minimum monetary awards when the government has breached their privacy, without having to quantify their damages. The brief argues that this concept of liquidated damages is crucial to the enforcement regimes of many federal privacy laws. The case, involving improper disclosure of Social Security Numbers, will be decided later this year or next year. August 25, 2003 [Center for Democracy and Technology]
Posted by mikki at September 2, 2003 08:48 PM
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