Engineer F Privacy vs. Material Omission Tension
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Engineer_F_Privacy_vs._Material_Omission_Tension
Properties
Instance of
PrivacyRightvs.MaterialOmissionTensionState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PrivacyRightvs.MaterialOmissionTensionState
Active period
At time of employment application and throughout employment relationship
Affected parties
Engineer F
Engineer F's employer
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Subject
Engineer F's tension between privacy interest in non-disclosure of contractor revocation and ethical duty to disclose material integrity information
Terminated by
Ethics board determination that material omission obligation overrides privacy interest given adjudicated nature of wrongdoing
Triggering event
Engineer F's decision to answer narrowly and not volunteer contractor license revocation information
Urgency level
medium
Source Evidence
Source text
While Engineer F could claim a legalistic rationale for being evasive and not responding to the full implications of the question, as a matter of ethics, Engineer F's conduct was failing
Text references
It should have been equally clear to Engineer F that the employer's questions sought to elicit information concerning Engineer F's character, integrity, and credibility as a professional engineer
While Engineer F could claim a legalistic rationale for being evasive and not responding to the full implications of the question, as a matter of ethics, Engineer F's conduct was failing
TTL
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case148:Engineer_F_Privacy_vs._Material_Omission_Tension a proeth:PrivacyRightvs.MaterialOmissionTensionState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer F Privacy vs. Material Omission Tension" ;
proeth:activeperiod "At time of employment application and throughout employment relationship" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Engineer F",
"Engineer F's employer" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T22:52:20.599552+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T22:52:20.599552+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "While Engineer F could claim a legalistic rationale for being evasive and not responding to the full implications of the question, as a matter of ethics, Engineer F's conduct was failing" ;
proeth:stateclass "Privacy Right vs. Material Omission Tension State" ;
proeth:subject "Engineer F's tension between privacy interest in non-disclosure of contractor revocation and ethical duty to disclose material integrity information" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Ethics board determination that material omission obligation overrides privacy interest given adjudicated nature of wrongdoing" ;
proeth:textreferences "It should have been equally clear to Engineer F that the employer's questions sought to elicit information concerning Engineer F's character, integrity, and credibility as a professional engineer",
"While Engineer F could claim a legalistic rationale for being evasive and not responding to the full implications of the question, as a matter of ethics, Engineer F's conduct was failing" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Engineer F's decision to answer narrowly and not volunteer contractor license revocation information" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "medium" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 148 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T23:11:08.569389"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 148 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
148
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T22:52:20.599552+00:00
First case
148
Generated
2026-02-28T22:52:20.599552+00:00
Attributed to
Case 148 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:11:08.569389
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction