Obligation of Confidentiality

1.   Based on ordinary moral considerations:

I. Respect for autonomy:

- Recognizing the legitimate control over private information (individuals or corporations).

- This control is required to maintain their privacy and protect their self-interest.

II.	-	Respect for Promise: Respecting promises in terms of employment contracts not to divulge  certain
		information considered sensitive by the employer
III.	-	Regard for public wellbeing: Only when there is a confidence that the physician will not reveal information,
	-	The patient will have the trust to confide in him. Similarly  only  when  companies  maintain  some  degree  of confidentiality
		concerning their products, the benefits of competitiveness within a free market
		Are promoted.

2.  Based on Major Ethical Theories:

- All theories profess that employers have moral and institutional rights to decide what information about their organization should be released publicly.

- They acquire these rights as part of their responsibility to protect the interest of the organization.

- All  the  theories,  rights  ethics,  duty ethics and  utilitarianism  justify  this confidentiality but in different ways.