George Annas, a health law professor at Boston University, said: "This is certainly not a privacy statute.

He contends that revealing athletes' test scores, grades and courses, hitherto kept hidden through federal privacy statutes, can change the "closed society of college sports."

Several US federal agencies have privacy statutes that cover their collection and use of private information.

The voice noted that disclosure of these documents was limited under privacy statutes.

The government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes.

"In many cases when you're dealing with privacy statutes, the harms you're trying to avoid are difficult to quantify," he told Ars.

In addition to strengthening hoary privacy statutes, CDT hopes to see more stringent limitations on the growing surveillance powers of intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

Violation of Civil Rights Law 51: "New York's right to privacy statute"

He blamed privacy statutes and other restrictions limiting an employer's ability to administer polygraph examinations and personality tests to prospective workers.

Unlike most Federal civil rights laws, this act would trump stronger state privacy statutes.