When is information private and confidential

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Video: Privacy Versus Confidentiality

Question 1: When is information private? When is information confidential?
Question 2: Why is a professional breaching confidentiality a serious matter?
Question 3: What are professions?
Question 4: What does prima facie mean? (Look this up in the dictionary)
Question 5: What follows from something being a prima facie duty?
Question 6: In general, when may someone break a professional confidence?
Question 7: What are positive duties? What are negative duties? Which are more obligatory?
Question 8: Describe some of the difficulties associated with assessing the probability of the risk of harm or its magnitude?
Question 9: In general, when are exceptions to confidentiality justified in the medical profession? Also, give an example?
Question 10: What is the significance of the Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California case when it comes to medical professionals' duty of confidentiality?
Question 11: How did the ethical duties of engineers change in 62 years from 1912 to 1974?
Question 12: Look up online one of the famous disasters in which the duty to the public's safety, health, and welfare was not satisfied. Give a brief description of what happened? Here are your options:
- Ford's Pinto
- McDonnell Douglas' DC-10
- General Motors' Corvair
- B.F. Goodrich's aircraft brakes
- Challenger's O-rings
Question 13: Management accountants are told to resign from a position if ethical conflicts still exist after exhausting all levels of internal review. They are not encouraged to blow the whistle to authorities or individuals outside the organization. Given the great damage that financial losses might impose on the public, e.g., the Savings and Loan crisis (look it up online), what do you think of this advice? Support your position.

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