Confidentiality Duration Indeterminacy Acknowledged by Board
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/106#Confidentiality_Duration_Indeterminacy_Acknowledged_by_Board
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityDurationIndeterminacyPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityDurationIndeterminacyPrinciple
Applied to
Attorney Z Plaintiff Counsel Client
Balancing with
Competitive Employment Freedom With Confidentiality Constraint
Concrete expression
The Board explicitly declines to specify how long the post-relationship duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained, acknowledging that this is a context-dependent question that cannot be resolved by a fixed rule
Confidence
0.85
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The Board's refusal to specify duration reflects the open-textured nature of confidentiality obligations — the duty persists for as long as the information remains sensitive and the potential for harm from disclosure exists, which is inherently case-specific
Invoked by
Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides
Tension resolution
The Board leaves the duration question open, implicitly requiring engineers to err on the side of continued confidentiality when the temporal scope of the obligation is uncertain
Source Evidence
Source text
How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained, the Board is not prepared to state at this time
Text references
How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained, the Board is not prepared to state at this time
while an engineer may not currently have a professional relationship with a former client, the engineer still has an ethical obligation to that client to protect certain confidential information and facts, as well as a certain duty of trust and loyalty
TTL
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case106:Confidentiality_Duration_Indeterminacy_Acknowledged_by_Board a proeth:ConfidentialityDurationIndeterminacyPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Confidentiality Duration Indeterminacy Acknowledged by Board" ;
proeth:appliedto "Attorney Z Plaintiff Counsel Client" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Competitive Employment Freedom With Confidentiality Constraint" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The Board explicitly declines to specify how long the post-relationship duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained, acknowledging that this is a context-dependent question that cannot be resolved by a fixed rule" ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "106" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T00:47:28.276757+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "106" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T00:47:28.276757+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "The Board's refusal to specify duration reflects the open-textured nature of confidentiality obligations — the duty persists for as long as the information remains sensitive and the potential for harm from disclosure exists, which is inherently case-specific" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides" ;
proeth:principleclass "Confidentiality Duration Indeterminacy Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained, the Board is not prepared to state at this time" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The Board leaves the duration question open, implicitly requiring engineers to err on the side of continued confidentiality when the temporal scope of the obligation is uncertain" ;
proeth:textreferences "How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained, the Board is not prepared to state at this time",
"while an engineer may not currently have a professional relationship with a former client, the engineer still has an ethical obligation to that client to protect certain confidential information and facts, as well as a certain duty of trust and loyalty" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 106 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T00:58:47.906357"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 106 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
106
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T00:47:28.276757+00:00
First case
106
Generated
2026-02-28T00:47:28.276757+00:00
Attributed to
Case 106 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T00:58:47.906357
Generated by
ProEthica Case 106 Extraction