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Every translator is obliged to keep confidential the contens of the document he/she translates. This is called professional secrecy. There is both a moral and a legal obligation not to reveal the contents of documents handed over by your clients. Lawyers, medical doctors, priests stick to the same rules. There is no doubt about it.

 The situation is like this: You sit in <Hereville>. If you get a job from an agency in <Thereville> 500 miles away, they usually want you to deliver via e-mail. Not to deliver via e-mail is considered not to be in business. Translators without an e-mail-connection can just forget about being translators nowadays.

 But how could you send a confidential document to this agency with text en claire? This would jeopardize the document! The contents of the documents could be read by third parties as easy as that.

 The bottom line is that you should use strong encryption that can not be cracked by third parties. So far, only PGP (Phil Zimmerman's Pretty Good Privacy software) can do this. This is why so many users—the universities of Sweden among them—have adopted PGP. It's simple and easy to use, free for private users and licensable for business organizations. Follow the links at the bottom of this page to find out how you can obtain and use it.

 To summarize: Documents should be sent encrypted. PGP is the only real chance for translators everywhere to send and receive encrypted documents. Use it.

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