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Legal Protection from Unauthorised Disclosure[edit]
Personal and Private Information[edit]

Data privacy concerns exist in various aspects of daily life wherever personal data is stored and collected, such as on the internet, in medical records, financial records, and expression of political opinions. In over 80 countries in the world, personally identifiable information is protected by information privacy laws, which outline limits to the collection and use of personally identifiable information by public and private entities. Such laws usually require entities to give clear and unambiguous notice to the individual of the types of data being collected, its reason for collection, and planned uses of the data. In consent-based legal frameworks, explicit consent of the individual is required as well.[6]

In the European Union, the Data Protection Directive provides a rigorous standard for privacy protection legislation across all member states. Although the Directive is not legally binding in itself, all member states are expected to enact their own national privacy legislation within three years of the Directive?s adoption that conforms to all of its standards.[7] Since adoption, the Directive has demonstrated significant influence on the privacy legislation of non-EU nations, through its requirements on the privacy laws of non-member nations engaging in transborder flows of private data with EU member nations.[8]

Presently, the EU is drafting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will replace the Directive and account for the privacy implications of recent changes in technology such as social networks and cloud computing. The GDPR is expected to be adopted in 2014, and be implemented by member states by 2016.[9][10]

In Canada, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) regulates the collection and use of personal data and electronic documents by public and private organizations. PIPEDA is in effect in all federal and provincial jurisdictions, except provinces where existing privacy laws are determined to be ?substantially similar?.[11]

Rather than a comprehensive framework, the United States has in contrast a patchwork of privacy legislation pertaining to different specific aspects of data privacy, relying on a mix of legislation, regulation, and self-regulation.

Additionally, many other countries have enacted their own legislature regarding data privacy protection, and more are still in the process of doing so.[12]
Confidential Business Information[edit]

The confidentiality of sensitive business information is established through non-disclosure agreements, a legally binding contract between two parties in a professional relationship. NDAs may be one-way, such as in the case of an employee receiving confidential information about the employing organization, or two-way between businesses needing to share information with one another to accomplish a business goal. Depending on the severity of consequences, a violation of non-disclosure may result in employment loss, loss of business and client contacts, criminal charges or a civil lawsuit, and a hefty sum in damages.[13] When NDAs are signed between employer and employee at the initiation of employment, a non-compete clause may be a part of the agreement as an added protection of sensitive business information, where the employee agrees not to work for competitors or start their own competing business within a certain time or geographical limit.

Unlike personal and private information, there is no internationally recognized framework protecting trade secrets, or even an agreed-upon definition of the term ?trade secret?.[14] However, many countries and political jurisdictions have taken the initiative to account for the violation of commercial confidentiality in their criminal or civil laws. For example, under the US Economic Espionage Act of 1996, it is a federal crime in the United States to misappropriate trade secrets with the knowledge that it will benefit a foreign power, or will injure the owner of the trade secret.[15] More commonly, breach of commercial confidentiality falls under civil law, such as in the United Kingdom.[16] In some developing countries, trade secret laws are either non-existent or poorly developed and offer little substantial protection.[17]
Classified Information[edit]

In many countries, unauthorized disclosure of classified information is a criminal offence, and may be punishable by fines, prison sentence, or even the death penalty, depending on the severity of the violation.[18][19]




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