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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Abuse of commercial confidentiality

Abuse of commercial confidentiality

  • Abuse of commercial secrecy
  • Commercial cover-up
  • Secret deals
  • Secret commercial agreements

Nature

The need for commercial secrecy is used as a justification for withholding information which may be of vital importance in establishing the existence of environmental hazardous products or processes.

Broader

Unethical commercial practices
Excellent
Abuse of confidentiality
Yet to rate

Narrower

Non-accountability of transnational enterprises
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Suppression of information concerning environmental safety
Presentable

Related

Secret international agreements
Presentable
Exploitation of trust
Presentable

Strategy

Exposing secrecy
Yet to rate

Value

Secrecy
Yet to rate
Disagreement
Yet to rate
Cover-up
Yet to rate
Abuse
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Commerce
  • Defence » Secrecy
  • Law » Agreements
  • Societal problems » Maltreatment
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    E6786
    DOCID
    11567860
    D7NID
    139274
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020