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Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You?
An anonymous reader writes "The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an important case to determine whether or not AT&T deserves 'personal privacy' rights. The company claimed that the FCC should not be allowed to distribute (under a Freedom of Information Act request) data it had collected concerning possible fraud and overbilling related to the e-rate program. The FCC argued that the information should be made public and that companies had no individual right to 'personal privacy,' the way individuals do. As it stands right now, the appeals court found that companies like AT&T do deserve personal privacy rights, and now the Supreme Court will take up that question as well. Given the results of earlier 'corporation rights' cases, such as Citizens United, at some point you wonder if the Supreme Court will also give companies the right to vote directly."
Long answer: noooooooooooooo!
Only if I don't like them, or I think they're up to no good.
Otherwise, what do they have to hide?
Right, or allow me to IPO myself and collect money. Yes I'll disclose my whereabouts from time to time by tweeter and foursquare.
They have the right, but not the ability. Damned lack of opposable thumbs!
I am not sure whether you are trolling or just joking. Your post is silly and off-topic.
If the question was "Does X deserve the right to vote?" it would imply that X would have to go through some trial or tribulation or somehow "prove" themselves in order to be granted this right. Women might for example then be found "deserving" of the right to vote by weighing up how much they have done for men. In that case the word is not 'right' but 'permission' or something similar. This goes for dogs, monkeys and people in a coma. Rights are not deserved - they exist or don't exist, or may be recognised or not recognised.
It's like voting millions of times.
Now we can rephrase the GM and bank bailouts.
They weren't bailouts, they were healthcare for companies. And their healthcare records are private, so shut up, pay up and quit asking questions.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
They already do. They get all the rights we do but with very few of the consequences
Perhaps it's time for the blissfully ignorant people of the USA to step up and take back some of those rights. Oh wait I forgot.... we never do anything like this until we are pushed to the brink. Damn lazy society. At least we can't complain that the corporations are raping us....OH WAIT DAMN.
"We are just a war away from Amerikastan. When god vs god the undoing of man." Dave Mustaine
So, when do corporations enlist and/or get drafted into the military?
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