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Re:Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge b... by sliverstorm on Monday March 03, 2014 @05:54PM (#7337141)
If companies are people, isn't disclosing private information belonging to that company is a violation of a person's privacy? Doesn't that mean the gov't also has a constitutional obligation to not break the privacy of companies?

What do you even do when you have conflicting constitutional obligations...

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Re:Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge b... by skywhopper on Monday March 03, 2014 @06:06PM (#7337227)
You err on the side of protecting the innocent and allowing the guilty to go free. That's the entire premise behind our justice system--that it's better to allow criminals to get away with crimes than to punish innocent people.
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Re:Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge b... by dllthomas on Monday March 03, 2014 @06:32PM (#7337373)
"That's the entire premise behind our justice system--that it's better to allow criminals to get away with crimes than to punish innocent people."

Well, that's the premise behind many aspects of our justice system. No justice system at all accomplishes it better than any justice system at all, without other considerations, so it's clearly not the entire premise behind the whole of our justice system.

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Re:Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge b... by nness on Monday March 03, 2014 @06:39PM (#7337412)
Interesting thought, but you've completely misunderstood the specifics of corporate personhood. Personal privacy is not reserved for incorporated entities at all.
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Re:Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge b... by maxerickson on Monday March 03, 2014 @06:20PM (#7337308)
The straightforward resolution is that the government shouldn't enter into agreements that create the conflict.

(I guess the more complicated answer is that there are lots of legal cases determining how to balance the two sides in such conflicts)

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Re:Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge b... by judk on Monday March 03, 2014 @10:22PM (#7338247)
Then you ask the judge for a gag order so the secret info doesn't reach the public.
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