Blocking devices will create a fair balance of the competing privacy interests.
The Court considered this a "negligible" intrusion on the subject's privacy interest.
The law protects the privacy interests of doctors as well as patients, the court said.
Clearly there is a privacy interest, but it's up to the passengers to assert that, not the company.
"Our first concern is the privacy interest of our customers."
A standard is needed that weighs the public's right to know against a candidate's privacy interest in withholding certain medical details.
Not every supposed violation of privacy interests amounts to much at all.
"To raise the privacy interest with respect to these people is kind of ironic," she said.
On the other hand, the countervailing privacy interest is at best trivial.
No privacy interest is served by continuing to hide the names on the accounts.