In confidence : when to protect secrecy and when to require disclosure / Ronald Goldfarb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldfarb, Ronald L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confidential communications--United States.

Confidential communications.

Privileges and immunities--United States.

Privileges and immunities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The variety and pervasiveness of confidentiality issues today is breathtaking. Not a day passes without a media report on a breach of confidentiality, a claim of attorney-client privilege, a journalist jailed for refusing to reveal a source, a medical or hospital record improperly disclosed, or a major business deal exposed by anonymous sources. In Confidence examines confidential issues that arise in various disciplines and relationships and considers which should be protected and which should not. Ronald Goldfarb organizes the book around professionals for whom confidentiality is an issue of weighty importance: government officials, attorneys, medical personnel, psychotherapists, clergy, business people, and journalists. In a chapter devoted to each, and in another on spousal privilege, he lays out specific issues and the law's positions on them. He discusses an array of court cases in which confidentiality issues played an important role and decisions were often surprising and controversial. Goldfarb also looks into the criteria that should be used when determining whether secrets must be revealed. His nuanced analysis reveals how federal government practices and technological capabilities increasingly challenge the boundaries of privacy, and his thoughtful insights open the door to meaningful new debate.

Contents:

Privacy, confidentiality, and privileged communications

Government secrets

The attorney-client privilege

Medical confidentiality

Psychotherapists

The pastoral privilege

All in the family : the spousal privilege

Confidentiality in business

Journalists : the reach of the First Amendment and the value of the anonymous source

The effects of technology on confidentiality.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-275) and index.

ISBN:

9786612088698

1-282-08869-6

0-300-15559-X

OCLC:

646813552