No, please stop with this false equivalence. People get rights and benefit of the doubt. Corporations do not.
The flaw that is limiting your thinking and understanding is companies don’t do things, only people can do things. Until you start seeing companies as a group of people, you can’t understand and predict how a “company” will act and behave. When a sales person is selling a product, it is a person who is acting, they may follow some policies, but another person made those policies. You need to expand your thinking into the individual people.
Suppose a group of people agree amongst themselves to work together to produce and sell a good or service.
Are these people entitled to the rights you're talking about? They're people, so I think you must say that they are.
OTOH, to all intents and purposes these people are behaving like a corporation. How can it be that corporations are denied those rights, but groups of people that behave exactly like corporations -- that are corporations, in all but name -- are entitled to them?
> People get rights and benefit of the doubt. Corporations do not.
Corporations are just groups of people. Unless you're accusing a company of being ran by AGI.
It's not false equivalence, we were talking about communications between people. Corporations don't write emails, people do. A corporation, big or small, is just a legal way of definining the property of people, and the people who work for it (who may or may not also own some of it) are people. Communications between them are communications between people.
What they're saying is that people deserve privacy, unless what they're doing has some relationship to making money, in which case they do not.