The UK Association of Cancer Registries, for example, has been extracting and analysing cancer data for 40 years without a single
recorded breach of confidentiality.
Not exact matches
The Court ruled that the employee knew, or ought to have known, that the surreptitious
recording was a
breach of his
confidentiality and privacy obligations to his employer as well as
of the personal code
of conduct he had prepared as part
of the corrective action imposed on him.
In addition to the unacceptable conduct the employer knew about at the time
of dismissal, the employer at trial also argued that use
of a company phone for a purpose that was never intended, that is
recording conversations with senior management, was a deliberate violation
of the employee's duty
of confidentiality and a
breach of trust and loyalty to the defendant.
Until recently, however, a
breach of confidentiality involved a physical exchange
of paper
records or a verbal exchange
of information.