That's a relief! Jim On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:50 AM, <krf...@aol.com> wrote:
> Click here: Supreme Court rejects AT&T corporate privacy rights | > Reuters<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/01/us-att-privacy-idUSTRE7203UN20110301> > > As an addendum to my previous posting about "UniLeaks," the US Supreme > Court has just ruled that corporations (presumably including universities) > do not have the same rights to privacy that are accorded to individuals. > > Here's an excerpt from the Reuters article (the link above is to the whole > thing). > > AT&T Inc and other corporations do not have personal privacy rights to > prevent disclosure of federal government records about them, the Supreme > Court ruled on Tuesday. > > The justices unanimously overturned a ruling by a U.S. appeals court for > the telecommunications company that corporations can assert personal privacy > in claiming the records should be exempt from disclosure. > > The high court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, agreed > with the Obama administration's argument that the personal privacy exemption > under the Freedom of Information law applied only to individuals, not to > corporations. > > *------------------------------------------------------------------------- > * > Alan Krigman > KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc > 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918 > 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 > krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com > -- Jim Cummings
