Indeed, the
concerns had become so acute that these legislative leaders successfully enacted a restriction prohibiting relevant agencies from expending appropriated monies
upon the
matter at issue, consistent with the plain requirements
of the GCRA
of 1990, through language in the conference report accompanying
Public Law 106 - 74:
Similar to intrusion
upon seclusion, the court wrote: «One who gives publicity to a
matter concerning the private life
of another is subject to liability to the other for invasion
of his privacy, if the
matter publicized is
of a kind that (a) would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and (b) is not
of legitimate
concern to the
public.»