Confidentiality Scope Limitation Doe XYZ Discharge Findings Disclosure
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/72#Confidentiality_Scope_Limitation_Doe_XYZ_Discharge_Findings_Disclosure
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityScopeLimitationforPublicDangerDisclosureObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityScopeLimitationforPublicDangerDisclosureObligation
Case context
After contract termination, Doe possessed completed findings that XYZ's discharge would violate established standards. The question arose whether §7 confidentiality barred him from disclosing these findings to the State Pollution Control Authority.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Doe
Obligation statement
Engineer Doe was obligated to recognize that §7 confidentiality did not bar his disclosure of findings that XYZ's discharge would violate established minimum standards, because such disclosure concerns a regulatory violation and public danger — not XYZ's technical processes or business affairs — and therefore the confidentiality provision did not apply to prevent his reporting to the State Pollution Control Authority.
Temporal scope
Upon considering whether to disclose findings to the State Pollution Control Authority after contract termination
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Section 7 of the code does not give us pause because the action of the engineer in advising proper authority of the apparent danger to the public interest will not in this case be disclosing the technical processes or business affairs of the client.
Text references
Section 7 of the code does not give us pause because the action of the engineer in advising proper authority of the apparent danger to the public interest will not in this case be disclosing the technical processes or business affairs of the client.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Confidentiality Scope Limitation Doe XYZ Discharge Findings Disclosure" ;
proeth:casecontext "After contract termination, Doe possessed completed findings that XYZ's discharge would violate established standards. The question arose whether §7 confidentiality barred him from disclosing these findings to the State Pollution Control Authority." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case72:Confidentiality_Non-Applicability_to_Public_Danger_Disclosure_Applied_to_Doe_Testimony ;
proeth:discoveredincase "72" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-26T12:07:06.185123+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "72" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-26T12:07:06.185123+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Doe" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Confidentiality Scope Limitation for Public Danger Disclosure Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Doe was obligated to recognize that §7 confidentiality did not bar his disclosure of findings that XYZ's discharge would violate established minimum standards, because such disclosure concerns a regulatory violation and public danger — not XYZ's technical processes or business affairs — and therefore the confidentiality provision did not apply to prevent his reporting to the State Pollution Control Authority." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Section 7 of the code does not give us pause because the action of the engineer in advising proper authority of the apparent danger to the public interest will not in this case be disclosing the technical processes or business affairs of the client." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon considering whether to disclose findings to the State Pollution Control Authority after contract termination" ;
proeth:textreferences "Section 7 of the code does not give us pause because the action of the engineer in advising proper authority of the apparent danger to the public interest will not in this case be disclosing the technical processes or business affairs of the client." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 72 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-26T12:15:43.077490"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 72 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
72
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-26T12:07:06.185123+00:00
First case
72
Generated
2026-02-26T12:07:06.185123+00:00
Attributed to
Case 72 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-26T12:15:43.077490
Generated by
ProEthica Case 72 Extraction