Re:Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica rese...
by dragonwriter on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:54PM
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> How can two private citizens attain the equivelant of "attorney-client privilege"
By one of them employing the other as an attorney (attorneys are private citizens).
(There are other similar but not strictly equivalente privileges, such as physician-patient, accountant-client, clergy-penitent, and marital privileges.)
> What is the reason that such privacy 'rights' are exclusive to conversations between an attorney and a person/entity.
Attorney-client privilege is needed because effective assistance of counsel requires people not to fear increasing their legal jeopardy through honest communication with their attorney.
By one of them employing the other as an attorney (attorneys are private citizens).
(There are other similar but not strictly equivalente privileges, such as physician-patient, accountant-client, clergy-penitent, and marital privileges.)
> What is the reason that such privacy 'rights' are exclusive to conversations between an attorney and a person/entity.
Attorney-client privilege is needed because effective assistance of counsel requires people not to fear increasing their legal jeopardy through honest communication with their attorney.