If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.
'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
I mean, the FBI has to assure people who come and help them that they're going to be able to keep their identities confidential and protect them.
The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.
I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
