Can't Tim May sue if he finds his SS# exposed? ---- http://www.foxnews.com/national/110300/va_privacy.sml Veterans Department Sued By Employees Over Privacy Breach Friday, November 3, 2000 By D. Ian Hopper WASHINGTON - Department of Veterans Affairs employees are suing the government, accusing the VA of breaching their privacy by giving fellow workers and some patients access to their Social Security numbers and dates of birth. The class-action suit on behalf of the VA's 180,000 employees seeks $1,000 for each one, the minimum amount under the 1974 Privacy Act. If successful, that would total about $180 million. The suit says that through an internal patient record system, employees' personal information appeared along with the medical information on patients. Workers at any VA facility could check up on VA workers anywhere else, said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin last month. It said there were no warning screens or logs of who accessed the information. [snip]