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by chc 5633 days ago
"Personal" and "person" are obviously related, but as Roberts observed, so are many other noun-adjective pairs like "edge" and "edgy," and edgy things very often don't even have edges. You can't infer the precise meaning of one from an arbitrary definition of the other. It seems very unlikely that Congress had the law's idiosyncratic definition of "person" in mind rather than the common definition of "personal privacy."