Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy"

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 02, @11:05AM
from the wait-till-ai's-become-legal-persons dept.
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Thanks to a recent ruling (PDF) by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, corporations now have a right to 'personal privacy,' due to the application of a carelessly worded definition in the Freedom of Information Act. FOIA exempts disclosure of certain records, but only if it 'could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.' But in its definitions, FOIA makes the mistake of broadly defining 'person' to include legal entities, like corporations. The FCC didn't think that 'personal privacy' could apply to a corporation, so they ignored AT&T's claim that releasing data from an investigation into how AT&T was overcharging certain customers would violate the corporation's privacy. The Third Circuit thought that the FCC's actions were contrary to what the law actually says. So now the FCC has to jump through more hoops to show that releasing data on their investigation into AT&T's overcharging is 'warranted' within the meaning of 5 USC 552(b)(7)(c) before it can release anything."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/02/1251203/Corporations-Now-Have-a-Right-To-Personal-Privacy

We now return you to cow fucking john edwards polanski olympics land.

Disturbing? Yes, very.

Surprising? No. not at all.

What to do about it? Get campaign finance laws changed.

Odds of doing that? Slim to none.

Other options? I'll wait to hear from others.

Recommend.

Corporations are buying off congress ..taking away our rights and giving them to themselves.


How do you comment when once again you find yourself so shocked its hard to even understand the insanity of it all? Even though after bush you did not think it possible.

And makes me angry.

(insert feminist or misogynist commentary here, your choice)

then when they hit "threescore and ten".. they should be liquidated and their assets should accrue to the legal authority responsible for their creation, i.e. the American Taxpayer.

edit: (Unless, of course, anyone knows immortal mortals out there.)

SECTION 1. The U.S. Constitution protects only the rights of living human beings.

SECTION 2. Corporations and other institutions granted the privilege to exist shall be subordinate to any and all laws enacted by citizens and their elected governments.

SECTION 3. Corporations and other for-profit institutions are prohibited from attempting to influence the outcome of elections, legislation or government policy through the use of aggregate resources or by rewarding or repaying employees or directors to exert such influence.

SECTION 4. Congress shall have power to implement this article by appropriate legislation.

Give Corporations human rights and make it extremely difficult for government to regulate them all while eviscerating the constitutional rights of actual human beings.

Sorry, but there has been a pervasive effort in all levels of government to turn corporations into people, with full rights and no liabilities. About the only thing left now is to give corporations the right to vote. Oh, wait, that's right, corporations vote with their money, which is so much more effective.

Conservatives argue against things like abortion and racial profiling on the grounds that there is no sych thing as a "right to privacy"

And here we have this.

Think we'll get any consistency out of them?

That is "pre-existing conditions" of criminal elements functioning as the CEO and other exec "cells" in their "Korporate Person" Brains that need to have some chemotherapy treatment to get rid of these sicknesses before we give them ANY "coverage" at all any more. Get rid of the Criminal Scum that keep infecting BOTH these companies and who spread their infections to our government and especially our courts through the disease called "campaign finance bribery"!...

But what if one corporation is 50 years old and another is just 3 years old? Is it illegal?

Those mergers would be disgusting. Not sure if they should be categorized under pedophilia or cannibalism. . .

No one person can compete against such power.

The Mad Hatter was mad because mercury was used in the making of those top hats and heavy metal poisoning ruined the minds of a great many hat makers.

We are all hat makers now.

http://ca.encarta.msn.com/column_sciencemercury/of_mercury_and_mad_hatters.html

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I posted this because it's important information, dear. No one else has posted jackshit about it and this was the source I found.

Is this case likely to be heard by the supreme court?