PRISM Scatters Attorney-Client Privilege

Law360, New York ( July 17, 2014, 5:48 PM EDT) -- Since the advent of codes and legal ethics, attorneys have been required to take steps to protect against disclosures of sensitive client information. In an age of pervasive government data mining and surveillance of the "cloud" through programs such as the National Security Agency's PRISM and the Drug Enforcement Administration's Hemisphere Project, can attorneys — especially (but not only) criminal defense attorneys — responsibly entrust client information to storage or transmission in the cloud?...

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