Personnel and medical files and similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy (b)(6).

Such disclosure was "prohibited by the Privacy Act" because it would "constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," the court said.

Personal Privacy - This exemption protects personnel, medical, and similar information from disclosure if its release would represent a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Exemption 6 - provides protection for personal privacy interests; permits withholding documents if disclosure would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

This exemption protects personnel, medical, and similar information from disclosure and a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Exemption (b)(6) allows agencies to withhold information in personnel, medical, and similar files when disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Information, which, if disclosed, would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, may also be withheld from disclosure.

It allows the exemption from mandatory disclosure of personnel and similar files if disclosure "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy."

But he went on to say that "any inference that our productive capacity is essentially unlimited is clearly unwarranted."

It explained that these were "lower income" people and that this was a "clearly unwarranted invasion" of privacy.