confidentiality
Noun
Meaning
discretion in keeping secret information
the state of being secret
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you must respect the confidentiality of your client's communications
2. "The protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability."
A duty of lifelong confidentiality was even more necessary, he believed, when it came to members of the security and intelligence agencies.
• A New York State judge temporarily blocked publication of a tell-all book by President Trump’s niece Mary, to determine whether she was violating a confidentiality agreement.
All conversations are carried out in a secure, HIPAA compliant therapy space with complete confidentiality.
By not keeping any list of users and corresponding anonymizing labels for them, a remailer can ensure that any message that has been forwarded leaves no internal information behind that can later be used to break identity confidentiality.