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confidentiality
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confidentiality

Restrictions on the accessibility and dissemination of information. Confidentiality is one of the six fundamental components of information security (see Parkerian Hexad).



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These run the gamut from breach of ongoing obligations of confidentiality, such as stolen client lists, to unlawful interference with economic interests and conspiracy to induce breach of contract.
2) Unless prohibited by any other statute, information may be disclosed to any requestor or recipient of information (including Federal agencies or State and Federal Courts) when the information would not be exempt from disclosure under FOIA rules or when information would be made available under HHS public information regulations' criteria for disclosures which are found to be in the public interest and consistent with obligations of confidentiality and administrative necessity.
The court issued a summary judgment on February 2, 2006, which ruled Aspen had wrongfully induced hospitals to breach certain obligations of confidentiality in Guidant contracts by providing Aspen with access to those contracts during Aspen's consulting engagements with the hospitals.
 
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