A panel of lawyers urged Congress Tuesday to adopt legislation that would undo the Supreme Court’s decision in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper, which found in March that someone whose medical information was shared by government agencies could not recover emotional damages.
In a wide-ranging discussion on the status of the federal government’s privacy laws before a Senate subcommittee, the law professor who helped pioneer the government’s role in protecting the private information of Americans in the digital age said the Supreme Court interpretation of the Privacy Act was “more narrow than intended.”
“I think emotional harms that are proven to a judge are real harms here, and we should put that back in the law,” said Peter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and the former chief counselor for privacy in the Office of Management
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