Linda Tripp has settled her lawsuit against the Government for privacy violations. She will get $595,000.

According to USA Today, among the privacy violations are leaking information to the New Yorker:

Based on information supplied by Pentagon officials in 1998, The New Yorker reported Tripp did not admit an arrest on her security application for her job at the Defense Department. She had been arrested for grand larceny when she was a teenager.

....The 1974 Privacy Act prohibits the government from releasing unauthorized personal information about individual Americans to nonfederal organizations. Tripp claimed administration officials retaliated for her role in triggering the impeachment proceedings. Tripp provided Independent Counsel Ken Starr with tape-recorded conversations in which Lewinsky confided an intimate relationship with the president.

Tripp also gets a retroactive pay increase which will be used to calculate her retirement benefits. Her lawyers haven't said if she is still working for the Government. Assuming she is not, she is entitled under the agreement to reapply to the Government for a job.

You can read the Settlement Agreement here.

Update: Eric Alterman at Altercation says the news reports have the details way wrong.