While an NDA is an important legal contract that binds the signer to keep confidential information confidential, it typically does not provide clear guidance about how the signer should accomplish this responsibility.
Under a federal shield law introduced in 2011, the federal government would have had to prove to a judge that the information it was seeking outweighed the journalist's need to keep confidential information, according to the Society of Professional Journalists.
They do not hold confidential customer data like credit card info. (In fact, the companies that need to keep confidential data, like financial and health services firms, are still not embracing cloud based systems as of yet.) But for the rest of us, CRM systems are basically places that store activities, appointments, emails, notes and phone calls.
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ICANN's failure to keep bids confidential has dented faith in its ability to manage disputes.
The affair has led to a tense stand-off between the government and the media over the right of journalists to keep contacts confidential.
If so, that would appear to cross the line from simple information-gathering by people outside a company to sharing of potentially material information by employees who have a duty to keep it confidential.
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Before leaving, she made it clear that I must keep everything confidential, and that she had asked me to help mainly because she wanted the women to feel safe when they went out.
"Insider trading basically comes down to where you know or ought to know that the person from whom you're getting this information has a duty to someone else to keep it confidential, " said former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Paul Atkins in a video interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Winter's lawyer argues that New York's "shield law" allows her to keep her sources confidential.
The Tax Code is actually pretty specific about who has a duty to keep that information confidential.
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Keep his name confidential and do all you can to prevent the class action defendant from questioning him.
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He or she is candid, transparent, available, supportive in the little things, and able to keep your confidences confidential.
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Yet so far, the company has fought to keep the documents confidential and away from court cases -- like Pennie Green's.
In return for that unspecified payment, the aggrieved author agreed to keep the matter confidential, sparing Goodwin any negative publicity at the time.
Mr Walker suggested a press officer may have leaked the information - Mr Yates said he worked with people he completely trusted to keep the information confidential.
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"Meetings have been held in Monaco, Istanbul and Paris, but due to the nature of the matter the parties resolved to keep the negotiations confidential, " Nott added.
Businesses adopting these guidelines would generally need to keep such data confidential, and notify and obtain consent from their customers for the collection, use and transfer of this data.
"This is an exceptional case, " the tribunal wrote in its verdict, declaring that the public interest in learning how the government made its decision outweighed the need to keep government discussions confidential.
Cuban agreed to keep the information confidential.
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In late 2008, after the government came to its rescue, AIG managed to convince the Securities and Exchange Commission to keep the chart confidential. it relented in March 2009 and released the names of the 16 bank counterparties and their exposures but not the specific deal information.
The technical problem was to be kept so secret that it came to be known as "Project X, " and the team, led by Lambuth, held a series of furtive technical meetings at a nearby Starbucks coffee house and Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, to keep the issue confidential.
She has agreed to keep the contract provisions confidential.
The police implored her mother, however, in the interests of justice, to keep her genital defect confidential, so as they would recognize, beyond doubt, a true confession when they found the killer.
Now people are seeing they can keep their insured information confidential and while through the app that WSN has created they can bring this other layer of information on top of client data.
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He doesn't have details as to when the OS will reach behind-the-scenes hardware, but he stresses that this is definitely not an open-source project: some parts of the OS will always remain confidential to keep ne'er-do-well terrorists (and governments) from undermining the technology we often take for granted.
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Chinese regional forestry officials asked Sino-Forest to keep leasing and sales agreements confidential.
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He did not say how the money was distributed, and said there was an agreement to keep details of the settlement confidential.
Paul Steven Singerman, the lawyer for Ruden McClosky, a bankrupt law firm that won court permission to keep some insider-pay details confidential, explained the practice.
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Palmer's widow, Debbie Palmer, told the Times she would not break her promise to keep the contents of the tape confidential, but said she was in "awe" after hearing it.
Personal data about staff can still be restricted, but it is harder for authorities to keep other material secret on the basis that it is confidential or threatens commercial interests than it would be in response to an FOI request.
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