the.com/confidentiality
The art of knowing something and letting it die with you, professionally.
means The practice of keeping shared information private, restricted only to those authorized to know it.
from From Latin 'confidentia' (firm trust), built from 'con-' (thoroughly) plus 'fidere' (to trust) — the same root that gives us 'confide' and 'fidelity.' The '-ality' suffix, borrowed through French, turns the trust into an abstract institutional property — so a personal act of confiding became, by the 20th century, a formal duty written into contracts and oaths.
- legal roots
- Doctors swore it millennia before lawyers monetized it
- the loophole
- Breaks instantly if harm to others is at stake
- NDA reality
- Most are unenforceable, but fear works anyway
- trust currency
- Costs nothing to keep, everything to break