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If people deserve privacy and corporations are run by people, then logically the people who run corporations deserve privacy.

I'd argue instead that the public's need to know sometimes outweighs an individual's right to privacy.



No. You do deserve privacy, however, you cannot expect it in all circumstances. You cannot expect privacy when walking down a sidewalk, you cannot expect to own a company without anyone knowing that.


Privacy is not deserved. Privacy is a right granted in the US constitution.


There is no explicit right to privacy in the Constitution. People have inferred that right from things like the third and fourth amendments.

But in any case, even if privacy was broadly recognized and protected (it isn’t, otherwise the government wouldn’t be allowed to buy your information from data brokers) that still leaves open the question at hand.




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