Re: Legal outsourcing and US government surveillance - blows attorney-client privilege?

I'm actually teaching attorney-client privilege this week in professional responsibility.

A good analogy is that there are bar opinions saying that the privilege is maintained through unencrypted email.

When you send email through plaintext, you know the ISPs and other forwarding stations on the Internet can see your communication, but that in itself does not blow the privilege.

I think the possibility of secret wiretapping is less likely to blow the privilege.

Peter

Prof. Peter P. Swire
C. William O'Neil Professor of Law
   Moritz College of Law
   The Ohio State University
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
(240) 994-4142, www.peterswire.net


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> Greg Broiles, JD, LLM Tax, EA
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What of attorneys who communicate with clients via gmail?   You *KNOW* those communications are going to be machine-parsed, in order to deliver possibly relevant advertisements.   Is the fact that they're not /supposed/ to be read by humans relevant to the discussion of Privilege?


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