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Hervé Temime: "Secrecy is protection, freedom"

2020-10-07T18:17:50.348Z


FIGAROVOX / INTERVIEW - The criminal lawyer publishes an essay with biographical accents in which he vigorously defends the professional secrecy of lawyers. He pleads more broadly in favor of greater respect for privacy, against the excesses of the society of transparency.


LE FIGARO.

- You passionately defend in your book the taste for secrecy, and its corollary, the ability to keep a secret.

Are they not obsolete in the age of social networks and transparency?

Hervé TEMIME.

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Obviously, but it's a shame.

First, because the mystery is irreplaceable.

And that nothing seems more vulgar to me than to display permanently and in the eyes of everyone the details, even the most banal of its existence.

How sad, and what a joke in spite of oneself, to post a photo of yourself in front of your cup of soy milk when you wake up, making the “V” for victory while holding gluten-free bread ...

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As for transparency, it is poorly understood.

The requirement of integrity of our public decision-makers to which I subscribe, which implies knowing their heritage and their links of interest, does not mean that everything must be transparent.

The right to know is not the right to know everything and certainly not about everyone.

Not only should this transparency

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Source: lefigaro

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