Federal Labor Relations Authority v. United States Department of Veterans Affairs

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

The instant litigation deals with individual privacy rights. It used to be thought that citizens had a right to pass through this world without their successes and failures or comings and goings being the subject of comment, discussion or publication. But the advent of the data computer bank has nearly swept away that long-held notion, has virtually stripped from the individual’s grasp control of information concerning his or her person, and has placed the precious and increasingly scarce “right to be let alone” in an endangered state. The specific issue on this…