Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
The fact that doctors tend to treat people as individuals, guided by the need to ensure patient confidentiality, can reinforce this pattern of seeing the changes and challenges aging brings on through our heads and our bodies, rather than as a shared experience.
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people need information, and national security deserves secrecy.
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
