confidentiality

Examples of confidentiality in the following topics:

• Confidentiality

  • Sociologists should take all necessary steps to protect the privacy and confidentiality of their subjects.
  • In any sociological research conducted on human subjects, the sociologists should take all the steps necessary to protect the privacy and confidentiality of their subjects.
  • The types of information that should be kept confidential can range from something as relatively mundane and innocuous as a person's name (pseudonyms are often employed in both interview transcripts and published research) or income, to more significant details (depending on the participant's social and political contexts), such as religious or political affiliation.
  • Following ethical guidelines, researchers keep individual details confidential for decades.

• The Impact of the Office Environment on Employee Communication

  • Individual offices can also preserve confidentiality and discretion as needed, which is especially useful for meetings between managers and their team members or when personnel matters are discussed.
  • Private office – An enclosed space for one person, suitable for activities that are confidential, demand a lot of concentration, or include many small meetings
  • Team room – An enclosed space for four to ten people, suitable for teamwork that may be confidential and demands frequent internal communication
  • Study booth – An enclosed space for one person, suitable for short-term activities that demand concentration or confidentiality

• E-Mail as an Entry Point

  • Confidential business documents sent over email are not confidential.

• Minimizing Risk of Miscommunication

  • Withholding Information: For many organizations, important information can be kept confidential due to company policies.
  • Withholding information: For many organizations, important information can be kept confidential due to company policies.

• Reducing Barriers and Promoting Healthy Conversations

  • Withholding Information: In an organization, much of the information is kept confidential due to company policies.
  • Withholding Information: in an organization, much of the information is kept confidential due to company policies.

• Defining Ethics

  • For example, lawyers must hold client conversations confidential and accountants must display the highest levels of honest and integrity in their record keeping and financial analysis.

• Quality Assurance (i.e., Professional Testing)

  • A piece of information that starts in one tracker may need to be reflected in the other, with confidential portions removed or, in the other direction, added.
  • Such reports would be inappropriate for the public bug tracker, both because of their form and because of confidentiality concerns.
  • Usually such notes are confidential—sometimes they're not even shown to the customer.
  • But even when they're not confidential, they're not very helpful to the public project.

• Avoid Mystery

  • Although the discussions around adding any particular new committer must be confidential, the rules and procedures themselves need not be secret.

• Franchise Agreements

• Whistleblower Protection

  • Some organizations have an ombudsperson who handles such matters on a confidential basis and advises the employee about their options should they wish to take formal steps to report the breach to the appropriate internal or external authorities.