In Confidence: When to Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure

A provocative work that explains where and when confidentiality begins, ends, and breaks

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 v...