Hi Jen,
Thanks so much for holding this forum. I wanted to ask you, since the government is involved in "listening" to the details of our online activities and phone calls, how can we truly trust the attorney-client privilege (or any other privileged conversations) are really confidential and will not be used by the government in some manner? I am concerned that the idea of the government watching an online stream (e-mails/chats/texts) between a client and their attorney or a patient and their doctor can be used against them in the future. With the new health care rules going into effect in January (and the old Death Panel rumors), what's to say that the fourth and fifth amendments are really being protected when the NSA doesn't even require a warrant anymore to listen to our conversations?
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Hi Jen, Thanks so much for holding this forum. I wanted to ask you, since the government is involved in "listening" to the details of our online activities and phone calls, how can we truly trust the attorney-client privilege (or any other privileged conversations) are really confidential and will not be used by the government in some manner? I am concerned that the idea of the government watching an online stream (e-mails/chats/texts) between a client and their attorney or a patient and their doctor can be used against them in the future. With the new health care rules going into effect in January (and the old Death Panel rumors), what's to say that the fourth and fifth amendments are really being protected when the NSA doesn't even require a warrant anymore to listen to our conversations?
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