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Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You?

Posted by samzenpus on from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-business dept.

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."

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  1. Companies should get NO rights by BubbaDave · · Score: 0, Troll

    Companies are not PEOPLE- people have rights, companies and corporations should not.

    Of course they are treated like people and do have rights- a source of many of our problems.

    BTW, the RIAA already has rights people don't.

    Dave

  2. Re:One company, one vote by wowbagger · · Score: 0, Troll

    "people who could afford to found their own personal corporation would have double the voting power of those who could not afford it.

    In fact, someone wealthy could found thousands of corporations just to get more votes."

    Gosh, I'm so glad you said that, because nobody else in this thread said anything like that! Nobody said "Yes, if 'corporations' could vote, then you'd see the Rich And Powerful creating millions of shell corporations to increase their own voting power."

    Oh wait, my bad - I said that in the very comment you are replying to!

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  3. Re:Really by Obfuscant · · Score: 0, Troll
    Churches are a huge political and financial force and they should be taxed as businesses are or, better, abolished outright.

    Unions are much bigger, much more political.

    But God forbid we let a little thing like the Constitution (freedom of religion, freedom to associate, freedom of speech) to get in the way of your well-reasoned and cogent rant.