You can have a face-to-face conversation with a friend, but how do you do that if you want to talk to a therapist? No therapist is gonna make an exemption and leave their phone in another room, not to mention, they literally write their notes into the computer system, instead of on paper.

And with lawyers? I just read about how Luigi Mangione’s conversation with his lawyer is being unlawfully recorded. How do you even have a conversation with your lawyer if you are in custody and they could just hide recoding devices all around the jail?

Sure, maybe they can’t use the evidence in court, but they could just leak an out-of-context audio clip to the press to win the “court of public opinion”.

  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    I think it’s impossible to have truly private conversations not just with therapists but with any kind of legally mandated reporter. at the end of the day, they’ll always choose self preservation over losing their career just because the state is trying to disappear one of their patients. they can either hand your medical file over or lose their licence.

    I’m sure a very small minority are willing to risk their licence by falsifying records (see partisan therapists during the Holocaust), but most of them aren’t brave enough.