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Confidentiality

Why a Media Shield Is Impossible

Peter G. Miller | Posted 05.16.2013 | Media
Read More: Confidentiality, Newsman's Privilege, Internet, Privacy, Media Shield Law, Media Shield Bill, Doj Ap, Internet Privacy, Obama Whistleblowers, Doj Ap Phone Records, Ap Subpoena, Media News
Peter G. Miller

There's a new urgency in Washington, a sense that the time has come to establish a national media shield that would protect news organizations and reporters from federal subpoenas and secret spying. It won't happen, certainly not in any meaningful way.

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Please -- Don't Remind Me!

Pamela Glasner | Posted 04.19.2013 | Impact
Read More: Cancer, Empowerment, Healing, Last Will and Embezzlement, Confidence, Starjack Entertainment, Confidentiality, Pamela Glasner, Impact News
Pamela Glasner

If someone shares something in confidence, particularly something that's difficult to bear, maybe we should go a step further with our definition than just not bringing it up at the next town meeting. Maybe we should not bring it up at all, to anyone, ever.

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Expect Your Conversations to Appear in Court

Brad Reid | Posted 04.01.2013 | Technology
Read More: Illinois, Search Warrant, Communications, Public Records, Privacy, Confidentiality, Online Privacy, Technology News
Brad Reid

As technology progresses, what communications are considered public increases and correspondingly the private decreases.

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Medical Privacy for Royalty and the Rest of Us

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 02.20.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Psychiatry, Medical Ethics, Confidentiality, Psychology, Celebrity, Bioethics, Privacy, Celebrities Medical Privacy, Patient Confidentiality, Patients Privacy, Health Confidentiality, Patient Privacy, Patients Confidentiality, Health Privacy, Health News, Medical Privacy, Celebrity Patient Privacy, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

We are not all royalty, but we do deserve medical privacy. I have seen both sides and continue to be amazed how much more careful we need to be.

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Trade Secrets May Be Lost

Brad Reid | Posted 07.16.2012 | Business
Read More: Confidentiality Agreement, Confidentiality, Trade Secrets, Non-Disclosure-Agreements, Business News
Brad Reid

One cannot be too careful or continually vigilant that everyday conduct does not negate the initial precautions. This would be like purchasing a safe but failing to lock the door. Companies have discontinued factory tours due to trade secret disclosure concerns.

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Sharing Office Cubicles... and Diagnoses

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 07.08.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Stigma, Medical Ethics, Psychiatry, Confidentiality, Mental Health, Psychology, Mental Illness Stigma, Privacy, Politics, Health, Ethics, Genetics, Healthcare Reform, Bioethics, Anxiety, Medicine, Healthcare, Wellness, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Coworkers occupy peculiar in-between roles in our lives. Most days, we spend at least half of our waking hours with them. Disclosing our personal problems to them can offer advantages, generating social support, or can prompt stigma and discrimination.

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Florida's Hospitals Have a Secret

Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 03.28.2012 | Miami
Read More: Hospitals, Medical Malpractice Lawsuit, Miami, Medical Malpractice, Lynda See, Medical Records, Confidentiality, Hospital Records Public, Miami News
Spencer Aronfeld

Florida's medical secrecy laws are buried deep into Florida's statutes and are supported in part by federal laws. Hospitals are permitted by law to practice under a veil of secrecy that no public corporation or government division enjoys.

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Is Schwarzenegger's 'Love Child' Entitled To More Child Support?

Fred Silberberg | Posted 07.27.2011 | Divorce
Read More: Child Support Calculation, Child Support Awards, Confidentiality, Family Law, Paternity, Mildred Patricia Baena, Maria Shriver, Parentage Cases, Extramarital Affair, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Child Support, Governor, California, Divorce News
Fred Silberberg

Much attention has been given in the last two weeks to the disclosure that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with the ...

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Madgirl: A Very Angry Child Starts Psychoanalysis on Madmen

Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Confidentiality, Child Analysis, Madmen, Psychoanalysis, Advertising, Entertainment News
Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon

For a child like Sally, ridden with internalized conflicts, shameful secrets and embedded misery, child analysis is the treatment of choice.

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Doctor-Writers: What Are the Ethics?

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Hipaa, Confidentiality, Trust, Professionalism, Writing, Trepidation, Literary Phenomenon, Patient, Morals, Emotional Reactions, Fascination and Fear, Intricacies, Veritable Epidemic, Rule of Thumb, Trafficking, Awe, Pedestal, Ethics, Literary Genre, Nonfiction, Libel, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Doctor, Starters, Country of Origin, Medicine, Expectation, Medical Profession, New York News
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD

There is a veritable epidemic of doctor-writers out there. What is going on? Are doctors suddenly in the kiss-and-tell mode? What about confidentiality? Professionalism? HIPAA?

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James Risen Subpoena: New York Times Reporter Refuses To Name Sources For CIA Book

The New York Times | CHARLIE SAVAGE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Cia, Subpoena, James Risen, The New York Times, James Risen Subpoena, State of War, Books, Eric Holder, Confidentiality, Books News

The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency...

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My Divorce is None of Your Business

Fred Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Law, Confidentiality, Divorce, Courts, Domestic Partnerships, Gossip, Family Law, Divorce Court, Judicial Oversight, Media, Privacy, Celebrities, Politics News
Fred Silberberg

If I get divorced in New York, the documents pertaining to my divorce remain confidential. If I get divorced in California, the documents pertaining to my divorce become a matter of public record.

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No One Has the Sense to Protect These Children

Fred Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Pbs, Child-Protection, Confidentiality, An American Family, Divorce, Children, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Jon and Kate, Parenting, Psychological-Effects-of-Divorce, Celebrity Kids, Common Sense, Public-Access, Jon-and-Kate-Gosselin-Divorce, Loud Family, Divorce Court, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Home News
Fred Silberberg

Certainly no one asked these eight small children whether they wanted what would otherwise have been a private, and hopefully somewhat innocent childhood, kept that way.

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