Law Recap Lecture:

Confidentiality:

Safeguards information gained in confidential circumstances. 
There are three areas of concern:
        - Revealing state secrets or official secrets.
        - Revealing commercial secrets
        - Revealing facts about a person they expected to stay private

    
Journalists must decide how newsworthy confidential information is and either:

- risk an injunction for a response to the allegation 
OR
- publish the material and risk legal action for a breach of confidence or defamation if the info in 

inaccurate. 

Breach of confidence:
There are three elements to breach of confidence
 - The information must have been imparted in circumstances imposing an obligation of confidence.
 - The information must have the necessary quality of confidence.
 - There must be an unauthorized use of that information to the party communicating it.