confidential communication
Privileged spoken information
Confidential communication is information shared with the expectation of privacy, often protected by law from forced disclosure.
The term appears most often in legal contexts: communications between attorney and client, doctor and patient, or priest and penitent are confidential communications that courts generally cannot compel either party to reveal.
The lawyer assured her that their conversation was a confidential communication.
- trustworthinessQuality of being reliable
- attorney-client privilegeProtected communications with counsel
- encrypted messagingCoded digital communication
- discretionCareful judgment in speech
- moral obligationEthics-based required action
accountability · whistleblower protection · classified information · sealed records · trade secrets · non-disclosure agreement · loyalty · integrity · confession · data encryption · firewalls · fiduciary duty · honesty · two-factor authentication · cybersecurity · off the record · behind closed doors · hush hush
confidential communicationpublic announcement
Official communication to all
public disclosure · open communication · broadcast · public record · public broadcast
confidential communicationpublic testimony
Formal statement before audience
court testimony · sworn testimony · deposition · public record · admissible evidence
confidential communicationpublic address
Broadcast communication system
town hall meeting · public speech · press conference · open forum · bulletin
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