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confidentiality

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Also known as privacy concern information

Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise sometimes executed through confidentiality agreements that limits the access to or places restrictions on the distribution of certain types of information.

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  • Legal confidentiality
  • Breach of confidence in English law
  • Medical confidentiality
  • United States
  • European Union
  • HIV confidentiality
  • Clinical and counseling psychology
  • Commercial confidentiality
  • Banking confidentiality
  • Public policy concerns
  • References
  • External links

Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise sometimes executed through confidentiality agreements that limits the access to or places restrictions on the distribution of certain types of information.

==Legal confidentiality==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “confidentiality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.