DP2
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/106#DP2
Properties
Instance of
Decision Point Id
DP2
Decision question
Does Engineer A's confidentiality obligation require only passive non-disclosure of Company X's information, or does it also require proactive recusal from assignments at Company Y where her structural knowledge could — even subconsciously — inform her technical judgments?
Focus
Engineer A's ongoing obligation to withhold Company X's confidential design information during her tenure at Company Y, including whether passive non-disclosure is sufficient or whether proactive recusal from conflicted assignments is required.
Option1
Formalize recusal in writing at the outset of employment, specifying the subject-matter domains from which Engineer A is excluded due to prior government access, and provide that documentation to Company Y's project managers so that inadvertent assignment to conflicted work is structurally prevented
Option2
Refrain from actively disclosing or referencing Company X's confidential submissions in any work product or internal deliberation, relying on Engineer A's individual professional judgment to police the boundary between general expertise and privileged knowledge on a case-by-case basis without formal written recusal
Option3
Recuse from assignments that explicitly reference or directly replicate Company X's approved facility designs, while participating in general domain work in the same technical area on the grounds that general expertise in the field is legitimately deployable and broader recusal would impose disproportionate career restriction
Role
Engineer A
TTL
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case106:DP2 a proeth-cases:DecisionPoint,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "DP2" ;
proeth:decisionPointId "DP2" ;
proeth:decisionQuestion "Does Engineer A's confidentiality obligation require only passive non-disclosure of Company X's information, or does it also require proactive recusal from assignments at Company Y where her structural knowledge could — even subconsciously — inform her technical judgments?" ;
proeth:focus "Engineer A's ongoing obligation to withhold Company X's confidential design information during her tenure at Company Y, including whether passive non-disclosure is sufficient or whether proactive recusal from conflicted assignments is required." ;
proeth:option1 "Formalize recusal in writing at the outset of employment, specifying the subject-matter domains from which Engineer A is excluded due to prior government access, and provide that documentation to Company Y's project managers so that inadvertent assignment to conflicted work is structurally prevented" ;
proeth:option2 "Refrain from actively disclosing or referencing Company X's confidential submissions in any work product or internal deliberation, relying on Engineer A's individual professional judgment to police the boundary between general expertise and privileged knowledge on a case-by-case basis without formal written recusal" ;
proeth:option3 "Recuse from assignments that explicitly reference or directly replicate Company X's approved facility designs, while participating in general domain work in the same technical area on the grounds that general expertise in the field is legitimately deployable and broader recusal would impose disproportionate career restriction" ;
proeth:roleLabel "Engineer A" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T01:11:27.602546"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 106 Extraction" .
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Extraction details
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2026-02-28T01:11:27.602546
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ProEthica Case 106 Extraction