Privacy Right vs. Material Omission Tension State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PrivacyRightvs.MaterialOmissionTensionState
Definition
State in which a professional's recognized right to personal privacy and non-disclosure of potentially damaging information — such as medical conditions, pending complaints, or prior failures — is in active tension with the professional's ethical duty to be objective and truthful and to avoid omitting material facts from professional representations, requiring a case-by-case weighing of whether the undisclosed information rises to the level of a material fact whose omission constitutes deception.
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Definition
State in which a professional's recognized right to personal privacy and non-disclosure of potentially damaging information — such as medical conditions, pending complaints, or prior failures — is in active tension with the professional's ethical duty to be objective and truthful and to avoid omitting material facts from professional representations, requiring a case-by-case weighing of whether the undisclosed information rises to the level of a material fact whose omission constitutes deception.
Source Evidence
Source Text
the right to privacy (i.e., nondisclosure) must be balanced by an engineer's corresponding obligation to be 'objective and truthful in professional reports, statements, or testimony' and to 'avoid the use of statements containing a material misrepresentation of fact or omitting a material fact'
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Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
f07c52bb65c8f28d...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
130
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-26T09:25:29.369957+00:00
First Discovered In Case
130
Generated
2026-02-26T09:25:29.369957+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 130 Extraction