Confidentiality Principle Invoked By Engineer A Under Contractual Agreement
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/84#Confidentiality_Principle_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Under_Contractual_Agreement
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Client-disclosed electrical and mechanical deficiency information
Structural report confidentiality
Balancing with
Code Exception Clause Activation for Public Safety Disclosure
Confidentiality Non-Applicability to Public Danger Disclosure
Public Welfare Paramount
Concrete expression
Engineer A invoked the confidentiality agreement with the client to justify not reporting electrical and mechanical code violations to any third party, treating the confidentiality obligation as absolute and overriding the public safety exception
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Interpretation
The confidentiality agreement legitimately protects the structural report as a business document, but cannot be extended to suppress safety-endangering code violations that endanger building occupants — the principle must be balanced against the public safety exception
Invoked by
Building Owner Selling As-Is Client
Engineer A
Tension resolution
Engineer A incorrectly resolved the tension by treating confidentiality as absolute — the correct resolution requires recognizing that the public safety exception overrides the general confidentiality obligation when building occupants face injury risk
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
Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential
in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party
TTL
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case84:Confidentiality_Principle_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Under_Contractual_Agreement a proeth:ConfidentialityPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Confidentiality Principle Invoked By Engineer A Under Contractual Agreement" ;
proeth:appliedto "Client-disclosed electrical and mechanical deficiency information",
"Structural report confidentiality" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Code Exception Clause Activation for Public Safety Disclosure",
"Confidentiality Non-Applicability to Public Danger Disclosure",
"Public Welfare Paramount" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A invoked the confidentiality agreement with the client to justify not reporting electrical and mechanical code violations to any third party, treating the confidentiality obligation as absolute and overriding the public safety exception" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
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 legitimately protects the structural report as a business document, but cannot be extended to suppress safety-endangering code violations that endanger building occupants — the principle must be balanced against the public safety exception" ;
proeth:invokedby "Building Owner Selling As-Is Client",
"Engineer A" ;
proeth:principleclass "Confidentiality Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Engineer A incorrectly resolved the tension by treating confidentiality as absolute — the correct resolution requires recognizing that the public safety exception overrides the general confidentiality obligation when building occupants face injury risk" ;
proeth:textreferences "Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential",
"in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 84 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:56:58.150430"^^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
2026-03-01T13:56:58.150430
Generated by
ProEthica Case 84 Extraction