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Confidentiality
Confidentiality has been defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as "ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access" and is one of the cornerstones of Information security. Confidentiality is one of the design goals for many cryptosystems, made possible in practice by the techniques of modern cryptography.
Confidentiality also refers to an ethical principle associated with several professions (eg, medicine, law, religion, professional psychology, journalism, and others). In ethics, and (in some places) in law and alternative forms of legal dispute resolution such as mediation, some types of communication between a person and one of these professionals are "privileged" and may not be discussed or divulged to third parties. In those jurisdictions in which the law makes provision for such confidentiality, there are usually penalties for its violation.
Confidentiality of information, enforced in an adaptation of the military's classic "need-to-know" principle, forms the cornerstone of information security in today's corporates. The so called 'confidentiality bubble' restricts information flows, with both positive and negative consequences (Harwood, 2006).
Confidentiality:
I should add a word about what I can and cannot talk about. I cannot discuss specific communications to me from the President or his staff or specific information learned in...
Does Confidentiality End with the Agreement?
Recently, I was able to help settle a particularly thorny contract dispute. Because tempers had flared and there appeared to be some bad blood between the parties, I was concerned about leaving the parties in the room while I brought the terms to the mediation coordinator so that she could type up the settlement [...
CONFIDENTIALITY TIPS
Ø Don?t talk outside the office about your clients.Ø Don?t take your clients? work out of the office.Ø Don?t provide your clients? work as an example to another client...
Mediation and Confidentiality
A recent case in California has upheld the concept of confidentiality within the context of mediation. In Wimsatt v...
Confidentiality in Settlements
There's a new RAND paper at SSRN, written by James Anderson of that organization, discussing a situation in which not requiring (indeed, not permitting) confidentiality in settling mass tort cases may be beneficial to defendants...
Layoffs and Confidentiality
It used to be called downsizing or rightsizing, but in today’s economy it’s also been called streamlining, employee simplification, re-engineering, and cost improvement...
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