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  2. Confidentiality - Wikipedia

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    Confidentiality agreements that "seal" litigation settlements are not uncommon, but this can leave regulators and society ignorant of public hazards. In the U.S. state of Washington, for example, journalists discovered that about two dozen medical malpractice cases had been improperly sealed by judges, leading to improperly weak discipline by ...

  3. Duty of confidentiality - Wikipedia

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    Though the duty to confidentiality is often expressed in absolute terms in professional rules, there are circumstances where the duty can be breached. The breach of the duty in certain contexts is justified through the balancing of the often competing interests of the client and proper administration of justice.

  4. Duty to warn - Wikipedia

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    [14] [page needed] Although laws vary somewhat in different states, in general, the danger must be imminent and the breach of confidentiality should be made to someone who is in a position to reduce the risk of the danger. [12] People who would be appropriate recipients of such information would include the intended victim and law enforcement.

  5. US health department opens probe into UnitedHealth hack - AOL

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    The full extent of the data breach remains unknown, and UnitedHealth has said it was still investigating. UnitedHealth has blamed the hack on the "Blackcat" gang, a notorious ransomware group that ...

  6. Client confidentiality - Wikipedia

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    Client confidentiality is the principle that an institution or individual should not reveal information about their clients to a third party without the consent of the client or a clear legal reason. This concept, sometimes referred to as social systems of confidentiality , is outlined in numerous laws throughout many countries.

  7. Information sensitivity - Wikipedia

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    The confidentiality of sensitive business information is established through non-disclosure agreements, a legally binding contract between two parties in a professional relationship. NDAs may be one-way, such as in the case of an employee receiving confidential information about the employing organization, or two-way between businesses needing ...

  8. Breach of confidence - Wikipedia

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    The tort of breach of confidence is, in United States law, a common-law tort that protects private information conveyed in confidence. [1] A claim for breach of confidence typically requires the information to be of a confidential nature, which was communicated in confidence and was disclosed to the detriment of the claimant.

  9. Information security - Wikipedia

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    Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. [1] It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data or the unlawful use, disclosure, disruption, deletion, corruption, modification, inspection, recording, or devaluation of information.