National Science Foundation to help CIA spy on chatrooms

[Lew Wolfgang]

Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:07:55AM -0600, JD Runyan wrote:
> 
>>Lewis Wolfgang wrote:
>>
>>>I just hope that I'm lucky enough to have MY information misused.
>>>There are Federal laws (Privacy Act) that hold not only an agency
>>>responsible, but the individual employee can be help personally
>>>liable.  Ka-Ching!
>>
>>I don't know if Ka-Ching is the best way to phrase the amount of money 
>>you will get suing your average GS employee.
>>
> 
> 
> This would be news to me. I was under the impression that close to a
> century of Supreme Court decisions had established that government
> workers were pretty much suit proof. If anyone knows otherwise,
> references please.

Hi Lan,

You might be right.  http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/privstat.htm says
that the agency is liable, while the employee may be subject to
criminal sanctions up to $5,000.  I wonder what the liabilities of
a priviate sector employee would be in a similiar situation?

Regards,
Lew