[telecom] Supreme Ct. says corporations... do NOT get some (human) "privacy" rights

Mar 02, 2011 0 Replies

- referring to a FOIL request of the FCC re: AT&T info:



lower court's earlier decision: "It held that Exemption 7(C) extends to the "personal privacy of corporations, reasoning that "personal" is the adjective form of the word "person", which Congress has defined, as applicable here, to include corporation."



SCOTUS overturned it: "Held: Corporations do not have "personal privacy" for the purposes of Exemption 7(C)..."



formatting link
may be power, but communications is the key snipped-for-privacy@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]



Join the Discussion

Have something to add? Share your thoughts — no account required.

Didn't find your answer?

Ask the community — no account required