Originally Posted by
st530
Not really following the argument since the information would be anonymized and not about a specific passenger, and in any event the specific passenger in question here consented to the release (and even encouraged it), so I’m not sure who would be the person or entity with standing to complain about the privacy regulation.
Regardless, let me ask you this: based on your understanding of these privacy regulations, can UA inform its own employees who served the flight? Especially the FA who served my cabin? I would sure hope so.
Inserting myself into the conversation, I don't know of any US privacy regulation that would stop UA from doing such on a generic / anonymized basis (or any regulation anywhere, for that matter). But, while I would certainly hope UA could do better than a McD franchise, I have not heard of UA (or any US business) doing such tracing / notifying, wwhich is unsurprising given the CDC or whoever are not pushing for any such efforts. I suppose further commentary is out of scope.
In any event, I hope you continue to have an asymptomatic course!