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Military Subject to Privacy Act

The United State Court of Appeals has held that the military is subject to the Privacy Act of 1974. This decision comes a year after a lower court barred a Privacy Act claim against the military under the �Feres� doctrine. In that case, a soldier�s training records were leaked to an author without consent.

Military Can Sue Government for Privacy Invasion, Washington Post, February 15, 2002