Privilege is the product of relationships that demand the confidentiality of exchanged information.
See generally California Evidence Code, Division 8, Chapter 4. Certain relationships are considered to be socially useful, such as those between attorney and client, physician and patient, or clergy and confessor. In an effort to promote these relationships and maintain the free flowing of ideas, information exchanged in the course of these relationships is not permitted to be disclosed without the client's consent. See Evidence Code 1035.6. The holder of the privilege in all cases represents the victim.