Publishing social security numbers online is a 1st Amendment right

I love how this woman has used the rule of law, the Constitution & FOIA, on what you would think would be common sense - that is - government protecting their citizens from publishing social security numbers online.

From ComputerWorld.com:

A fight by the Virginia government to stop a privacy advocate from republishing Social Security numbers obtained legally from public records on government sites on her Web site is attracting the attention of some privacy heavyweights.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a friend of the court brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to uphold privacy advocate Betty Ostergren's First Amendment right to publish the numbers.

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Largely in response to her campaign, Virginia lawmakers passed legislation in 2008 that prohibits the dissemination of any records that contain Social Security numbers, no matter how the records were obtained.