How the fuck is it even remotely legal for a politician to sign an NDA with a corporation to hide information from their constituents?
How the fuck is it even remotely legal for a politician to sign an NDA with a corporation to hide information from their constituents?
No NDA necessary. That’d be under other laws/systems. Some would be under things like HIPAA in the US if they learned the information in the course of their work. At minimum, it would fall under civil liability if they publicised private information of private individuals and those people claimed that it caused them harm in some way.
At this point I think you may not even understand what a NDA is.
Are you under the impression if someone doesn’t want to talk about a topic, they just “sign a NDA” and don’t have to talk about it?
An NDA is a contract in which someone agrees not to disclose information on a certain set of topics, under penalty defined in the contract or civil liabilities for breach of contract. “Have to talk about it” is an odd phrase for the subject. An NDA doesn’t force someone to talk/not talk about anything. It just creates a strong incentive to not talk about the topics included in the NDA or anything that might arguably fall under those topics because it opens one up to penalties. Many people can and do use NDAs as an excuse not to share information, with some even using a false implication that an NDA exists which prevents them sharing inconvenient information.
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You thought I meant an NDA was a magical spell that literally and physically prevents someone from speaking about something?
I have zero idea where you got the idea that a NDA can make someone talk about something tho, that’s even more random.
An NDA with the federal government means felonies and long sentences.
But yes, someone can physically violate an NDA, it’s not fucking magic.
Thanks for angrily strawmanning what I wrote. It tells me I can just drop this thread. Toodles.