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 bitskits on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:10AM (#2118997)

For a second, I thought this was an Onion article about a spicy TMZ story or something...

A publicly traded company could have a "right to privacy"? What a country.

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by yuhong on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @03:06AM (#2119101)

Well, many of them have confidential info about stuff like products in development.

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by yardie on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:12AM (#2119236)

So if your secret recipe contains 11 herbs, spices, and a pinch of dioxin that should be confidential?

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Re:AT&T Case Asks High Court to Assign Privacy Rights to Com... by bitskits on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @12:21PM (#2120481)

That's a different issue than what is described in the article. What AT&T seems to be asking for is a "freedom from embarrassment", rather than a protection of trade secrets.

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