Lawyers of reddit, what sobering fact about their rights would shock most people?

1. In America, the 3rd Party doctrine with respect to the 4th amendment. Basically says, if you give someone information, the government can ask that person to turn it over because you no longer have any privacy right over said information. Generally speaking, it makes sense. But many people don't realize that your bank and Google are 3rd Parties. More Importantly, people don't recognize how much information they are actually giving these third parties (e.g. check out your "google timeline") Admittedly, this little post grossly over-simplifies this issue and this is a rapdily developing area of law. But it's a concept most don't understand or appreciate.
   — onebigwaffle


2. The police do NOT have to read you your rights when you are arrested. I can't count the times people think they have a trump card that will win their case because the police didn't read them their rights. If they don't read you your rights, then your statement/confession will generally not be allowed in as evidence. But if you didn't make any statement, or if they don't need your statement to convict, then there is no consequence for their failure to read you your rights.
   — Makeelee


3. In Australia, a lot of rights aren’t actually written into the law. I believe there is nothing in Australian law that explicitly states we have the right to free speech for example.
   — awholepineapple






4. A man can't legally be raped in Switzerland, only woman can. Woman can't even be rapists. I heard they are going to change this law tho.
   — He_Schizophreniac


5. USA: The police do not have a legal obligation to protect you. (They may have a professional obligation and the individual officers might lose their jobs or be sanctioned if they don't respond; but if you call the police because someone is assaulting you and they never arrive, you have no cause of action to sue the police department.)
   — BeforeTheRobots


6. Eight of ten Canadian Provinces (and one of three Territories) have apology legislation, which states that just because someone said they are sorry does not mean they have admitted fault. Yes, Canadians have a law because we say "sorry" too much
   — Ganglebot






7. That when you plead guilty you are almost always required to give up your right to an appeal (although not a *habeas* petition).
   — GroundWorn


8. If you are a public employee, you generally have First Amendment protections. Saved my ass when an employer for a state government fired me for my private political actions when they did not affect my work.
   — comradetbm


9. I was pretty shocked to hear about buying a mobile phone + network plan at a store. Not sure if that's a thing everywhere but this is for Germany. Usually you have a 14 day return period for almost any contract. Those mobile phone stands in stores don't offer that. If you sign a 24month contract for a phone you haven't even tried out and a service plan that has no connection in your rural area, that's it. You *have* to pay it off. Better read everything you sign first.
   — frerky5






10. Not a lawyer, but a Hasidic Jew once told me that a man is allowed to skip going to Temple on Shabbos if he's at home putting a baby in his wife.
    — nine_legged_stool