AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Companies

Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by redcap on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:07AM (#2118993)

In the last year or two I remember reading about a UK company who sucessfully argued for either a right to privacy or a right not to have specific information published. This information was about some horrendous pollution that the company was responsible for in Africa, and iirc only came to light because it was picked up by a member of parliament and read into Hansard where it was subsequently picked up by social media.

I tried searching but couldn't come up with anything as I don't remember the name of the company or who was involved.

If my memory serves me correctly, this was an example of exactly why corporations shouldn't be granted the same rights as actual humans.

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by _delirium on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:42AM (#2119052)

I believe it's this case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafigura#Super-injunction

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by redcap on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @03:58AM (#2119204)

That's the one, ta.

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by yardie on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:03AM (#2119215)

That would be Trafigura. The British press was banned from reporting it (and still is). So they handed their material over to foreign presses in hopes that they would carry on reporting it.

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by joe_the_user on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:50AM (#2119069)

Actually,

Neither a corporation nor an individual should have the right to cover up something like that.

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by _delirium on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:51AM (#2119298)

That's one of the controversies with English libel law in general, which is fairly strong, applies a burden of proof to the person accused of libel, and doesn't have truth as an absolute defense.

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by arethuza on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @06:56AM (#2119508)

Upvoted for not saying "UK libel law" :-)

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by redcap on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:00AM (#2119210)

You're right, probably better to say that it's a reason why corporates shouldn't be given the right to privacy except for trade secrets and the like.

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