Article Title
The Corporate Privacy Proxy
Keywords
Corporate privacy, Ag-gag laws, Agriculture security legislation
Abstract
This Article contributes to the First Amendment corporate privacy debate by identifying the relevance of agriculture security legislation, or ag-gag laws. Ag-gag laws restrict methods used to gather and disseminate information about commercial food cultivation, production, and distribution-potentially creating a "right" to control or privatize nonproprietary information about animal and agribusinesses. Yet, corporate privacy rights are unrecognized as a matter of U.S. constitutional law, which implicates the sufficiency of the justification for ag-gag laws. This Article ponders whether "security" acts as a proxy for an unrecognized right to corporate privacy in the ag-gag context. Part I of this Article surveys the ag-gag landscape. Part II of this Article describes the corporate privacy debate. Part Iff of this Article hypothesizes how ag-gag laws arguably expand corporate privacy for animal and agribusinesses to a degree that threatens the marketplace of ideas about the industry.
Recommended Citation
Shaakirrah R. Sanders, The Corporate Privacy Proxy, 105 Cornell L. Rev. 1171
(2020)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr/vol105/iss4/4