The Chinese are going to get pretty good at FOIA requests, particularly for filings with the patent office and regulatory agencies.
"The protection in FOIA against disclosure of law enforcement information on the ground that it would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy does not extend to corporations," Roberts wrote. "We trust that AT&T will not take it personally."
Justice Roberts is absolutely right about this. If a corporation that deals with a public agency wants to make a legal case that some of its information should not be subject to public scrutiny under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), it must demonstrate that the disclosure of the information would cause irreparable harm or monetary damages. The mere fact that they deem it "private" isn't good enough, for the simple reason that the corporation isn't subject to any kind of legal protection for personal privacy as a matter of course.