When you ask the Q “do companies have privacy rights?,” then no, you aren’t missing anything. But I don’t think that’s the right question. Companies are just collections of people, and those individuals have privacy rights that do deserve consideration. Imagine, for example, a employee’s address being available to a stalker, or a famous CEO’s email address being published to the world, or critics seeking to intimidate a business’ owner because of the owner’s political position or demographical attributes. Also, as we say from the Sony hack by North Korea, baring a company’s secrets publicly can have life-changing effects for the people whose information gets shared. Obviously I’m picking extreme examples that may involve more data than is at issue in this bill, but I hope it shows what I think is the right questions that Congress ought to be considering.