Questions tagged [confidentiality]
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Tortious interference in confidentiality contracts via adding spyware?
Suppose party A has contractual obligations to party B for maintaining confidentiality, and party A obtains equipment or services from party C, a vendor who is aware that their customers in general ...
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Confidential price quotes [closed]
We have a customer that shares our price quotes with our competition. Is this legal? What can we do to prevent this from happening?
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Are email “confidentiality clauses” binding? [duplicate]
Sometimes, I receive emails for other people. Some of them have a clause at the bottom that says, “If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please delete it and inform the sender ...
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How much incentives do Delaware Registered Agents have to keep coproration owners' identities condifential?
Say Bob wants to create Acme Inc. in Delaware and keep it secret from the public who the owner/director is. He contracts Alice to be his registered agent, and she signs an NDA.
Rob is desperate to ...
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Have email disclaimers been tested in court?
Every company these days has the standard confidentiality disclaimer at the bottom of their email signature. However, researching this online reveals that their effectiveness is somewhat dubious. My ...
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What "weight" do email confidentiality statements carry? [duplicate]
CONTEXT: A Homeowner's Association's contractor (HOA Manager) sends emails with invoices that do not contain attorney client privilege information. The email is appended with:
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: ...
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Is privilege often misused to mean confidential?
It seems to me that these two terms may be completely different and yet they often seem to be used in an interchangeable and anyway an overlapping manner.
Under data protection laws, data controllers ...
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In 2013, many news sites reported that a US programmer (Bob) outsourced his work to a company in China. Isn't that illegal?
If you don't know, I'm talking about this:
https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-china/index.html
NPR and BBC also reported on this.
From what I've read, Bob only got fired by his ...
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Do confidentiality agreements implicitly allow to discuss confidential information with coworkers?
How enforceable is the following confidentiality provision in an employment agreement:
All project and data information and related technological matters are
confidential information and shall remain ...
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If issuers have to file Form D to easily sell shares of private company registered in USA , then are private company investments not "confidential?"
If issuers of securities have to file Form D to easily sell shares or make private placements of private company registered in USA , then are private company investments not "confidential? ...
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Security clearance of police officers
My question is inspired by this one, but it’s not the same.
It is my understanding that the federal law-enforcement officers who seized the boxes of documents held by “45” expected to find some papers ...
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What law requires me to safeguard classified information?
Let's say I have a briefcase full of Top Secret papers, and I carelessly leave it on the table at Burger King and it falls into the wrong hands.
18 U.S. Code § 798 apparently only applies if I "...
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Contract says all information must be kept confidential. Does this mean I cannot outsource?
Let's say there's something like this in the contract:
"Without the prior written consent of the other party, no party shall disclose any Confidential Information to any third party"
Does ...
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In a way aren't Non-Disclosure and Non-disparagement Agreements functionally very similar?
At a high level NDAs basically say "do not disclose confidential information to the public". At a high level Non-disparagement agreements basically say "do not disclose information to ...
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Must a counselor therapist keep certain information confidential even if it pertains to illegal activity?
Generally speaking medical professionals are obligated to keep their patient information confidential, I think by legislation or the licensing body that allows them to practice. I'm not sure if it's ...
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