Engineer A Environmental Principal Client Confidentiality Non-Invocation Disclosure Facilitation Current Case
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/83#Engineer_A_Environmental_Principal_Client_Confidentiality_Non-Invocation_Disclosure_Facilitation_Current_Case
Properties
Instance of
ClientConfidentialityNon-InvocationDisclosureFacilitationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ClientConfidentialityNon-InvocationDisclosureFacilitationObligation
Case context
Environmental assessment of property adjacent to protected wetlands; firm biologist identified threatened species; client was unaware of the finding before Engineer A disclosed it; client never requested confidentiality
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (environmental engineering firm principal, current case)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize that the developer client had not affirmatively invoked confidentiality over the threatened species finding — because the client was not even aware of the finding prior to Engineer A bringing it to the client's attention and never directly requested that Engineer A maintain it as confidential — and therefore had no confidentiality-based justification for withholding the finding from the written report submitted to the public authority.
Temporal scope
At the time of preparing and submitting the written environmental assessment report to the public authority
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Confidentiality Non-Invocation by Client Removes Confidentiality Defense
Source Evidence
Source text
There does not appear to be any affirmative action on the part of the client to treat the information as confidential, since it appears that the client was not even aware of the situation prior to it being brought to the client's attention and the client never directly requested that Engineer A maintain it as confidential.
Text references
Engineer A, therefore, had an obligation to include it in the written report and advise the client of its inclusion.
There does not appear to be any affirmative action on the part of the client to treat the information as confidential, since it appears that the client was not even aware of the situation prior to it being brought to the client's attention and the client never directly requested that Engineer A maintain it as confidential.
There does not appear to be any indication of an effort on the part of the client to treat the information as confidential.
TTL
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proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to recognize that the developer client had not affirmatively invoked confidentiality over the threatened species finding — because the client was not even aware of the finding prior to Engineer A bringing it to the client's attention and never directly requested that Engineer A maintain it as confidential — and therefore had no confidentiality-based justification for withholding the finding from the written report submitted to the public authority." ;
proeth:sourcetext "There does not appear to be any affirmative action on the part of the client to treat the information as confidential, since it appears that the client was not even aware of the situation prior to it being brought to the client's attention and the client never directly requested that Engineer A maintain it as confidential." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of preparing and submitting the written environmental assessment report to the public authority" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A, therefore, had an obligation to include it in the written report and advise the client of its inclusion.",
"There does not appear to be any affirmative action on the part of the client to treat the information as confidential, since it appears that the client was not even aware of the situation prior to it being brought to the client's attention and the client never directly requested that Engineer A maintain it as confidential.",
"There does not appear to be any indication of an effort on the part of the client to treat the information as confidential." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
83
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T19:06:22.018248+00:00
First case
83
Generated
2026-02-27T19:06:22.018248+00:00
Attributed to
Case 83 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T19:15:08.548045
Generated by
ProEthica Case 83 Extraction