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Originally Posted by Tsuyoshi
The way I had understood it, classified meant secret because they didn't want people to know about it because it would compromise them. A doctor doesn't reveal medical records not because it would compromise him, but because it would compromise his patients. The same goes for the lawyer because his client's criminal confession would compromise his client more than himself. That's a different kind of classified information. The classified information Assange leaked out compromised the US itself more than anything, it compromised the doctor, the lawyer.
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now assume that the Doctor/lawyer is the US.
and the patient/client is a foreign diplomat.
because thats what many of these diplomatic cables discuss.
what the patient told the doctor under the belief that his words are under the protection of doctor-patient confidentiality.
now that the medical records are all over the internet, along with pictures of the patients Penis and the doctors opinion about the patients personal hygiene, the willingness to trust doctor-patient confidentiality goes out the window