Confidentiality Non-Applicability to Public Danger Disclosure Violated By Engineer A
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/84#Confidentiality_Non-Applicability_to_Public_Danger_Disclosure_Violated_By_Engineer_A
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityNon-ApplicabilitytoPublicDangerDisclosure
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityNon-ApplicabilitytoPublicDangerDisclosure
Applied to
Confidentiality agreement covering structural report
Electrical and mechanical code violations endangering building occupants
Balancing with
Confidentiality Principle
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Concrete expression
Engineer A's failure to report electrical and mechanical code violations to appropriate authorities violated the principle that confidentiality obligations do not bar disclosure of apparent public dangers — the code violations constituted an apparent danger to building occupants that Engineer A was obligated to report
Confidence
0.96
Importance
high
Interpretation
The confidentiality agreement covered the structural report as a business document but did not extend to bar Engineer A from advising appropriate authorities of the apparent danger posed by the electrical and mechanical code violations — this disclosure would not constitute a violation of the protected confidentiality obligation
Invoked by
Engineer A
Tension resolution
The principle establishes that disclosure of apparent public dangers is outside the scope of confidentiality protection — Engineer A's failure to recognize this distinction constitutes the core ethical violation in this case
Source Evidence
Source text
in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party
Text references
in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party
the building contains deficiencies in the electrical and mechanical systems which violate applicable codes and standards
those deficiencies could cause injury to the occupants of the building
TTL
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case84:Confidentiality_Non-Applicability_to_Public_Danger_Disclosure_Violated_By_Engineer_A a proeth:ConfidentialityNon-ApplicabilitytoPublicDangerDisclosure,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Confidentiality Non-Applicability to Public Danger Disclosure Violated By Engineer A" ;
proeth:appliedto "Confidentiality agreement covering structural report",
"Electrical and mechanical code violations endangering building occupants" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Confidentiality Principle",
"Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's failure to report electrical and mechanical code violations to appropriate authorities violated the principle that confidentiality obligations do not bar disclosure of apparent public dangers — the code violations constituted an apparent danger to building occupants that Engineer A was obligated to report" ;
proeth:confidence "0.96" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "84" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:37:05.727947+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "84" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:37:05.727947+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The confidentiality agreement covered the structural report as a business document but did not extend to bar Engineer A from advising appropriate authorities of the apparent danger posed by the electrical and mechanical code violations — this disclosure would not constitute a violation of the protected confidentiality obligation" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A" ;
proeth:principleclass "Confidentiality Non-Applicability to Public Danger Disclosure" ;
proeth:sourcetext "in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The principle establishes that disclosure of apparent public dangers is outside the scope of confidentiality protection — Engineer A's failure to recognize this distinction constitutes the core ethical violation in this case" ;
proeth:textreferences "in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party",
"the building contains deficiencies in the electrical and mechanical systems which violate applicable codes and standards",
"those deficiencies could cause injury to the occupants of the building" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 84 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:56:58.152400"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 84 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
84
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T13:37:05.727947+00:00
First case
84
Generated
2026-03-01T13:37:05.727947+00:00
Attributed to
Case 84 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:56:58.152400
Generated by
ProEthica Case 84 Extraction