Lyle Denniston comments on the Supreme Court justices’ reactions during oral argument on FCC v. ATT today: With a clarity that approached the blatantly obvious, the notion that federal law gives corporations a right of “personal privacy” in their internal records steadily lost support as argument on the point unfolded Wednesday in the Supreme Court….
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SCOTUS: Oral arguments today in FCC v. AT&T
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in FCC v. AT&T, a case that raises the issue of whether corporations have “personhood” in the sense that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy that individuals enjoy. The specific issue before the court is whether exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act that apply to individuals’…
ThankTwitter: Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Promote Good Corporate Stewardship of Privacy
There’s a new page on this web site: the ThankTwitter page. The #ThankTwitter campaign is a grassroots, crowd-sourced effort to publicly acknowledge Twitter’s defense of its users’ privacy when served with a sealed court order to turn over some users’ information without even notifying the users. Instead of complying, Twitter filed a motion to unseal…
Google In Legal Challenge Against Spanish Privacy Laws
David Jones reports: A legal case pitting Internet search giant Google Inc. (GOOG) against Spanish privacy laws will be heard by a Spanish court Wednesday, a Google spokeswoman said. The case, a significant test of tightening privacy laws in the developed world, stems from a 2008 Google challenge to Spain’s Agency of Data Protection, a…