Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: PZ2@psuvm.psu.edu (David L. Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Employee Makes Private Phone Records Public!! Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 17:56:12 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Penn State University Lines: 15 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 345, Message 4 of 11 In article , motcid!peed@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Peed) says: > IF the telephone customer in question had been a private citizen, I > too would be outraged at Mr. Borow's publishing of this information. > If I remember my American Government lecturer's comments correctly, > the Constitution of the United States explicitly guarantees the right > of privacy to INDIVIDUALS, not corporations. In fact, if I remember MY lecturer's comments (from far too long ago) as well as more recent business dealings, in law, corporations are treated as persons. That is one of their main differences from partnerships and proprietorships. So they have the same right to privacy as the rest of us.