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Court Weighs Whether Corporations Have Personal Privacy Rights

WASHINGTON â€” The claim that corporations have personal privacy rights met with widespread skepticism on Wednesday during a lively Supreme Court argument.

A year ago, the court ruled in the Citizens United decision that corporations and unions had a First Amendment right to spend money in candidate elections. But that decision, which involved a question of constitutional law, did not come up at the argument on Wednesday, which considered the quite different issue of what Congress meant when it exempted some files from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

The exemption at issue in the case, Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T Inc., No. 09-1279, protects information that â€œcould reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.â€

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Col. George W. Jan 20, 2011, 10:24am UTC

Of course they have privacy rights, they always have. They have the priviledge of keeping their formulas, recepes, etc secret to avoid someone else making their product. That's why there exists industrial spys. The question is how far those rights extend.

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Mary S. Jan 21, 2011, 12:35am UTC

We need to refrain from buying things from the bad corporations, though we have few ways to get congress to stop giving them money.

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