confidentiality clause
Coverage of confidentiality clause in the Nexus archive.
- Court strikes down confidentiality clause for air travel complaints process
A Canadian court ruled that a confidentiality clause in the Canadian Transportation Agency's air travel complaints process is unnecessary. The clause, which prevented public disclosure of complaint outcomes since 2023, was challenged by airlines citing sensitive information concerns.
- US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
US tech firms, including Microsoft, successfully lobbied the EU to conceal the environmental impact of datacentres by incorporating a confidentiality clause into EU rules. This clause, adopted almost verbatim from industry demands, limits public access to granular green metrics, hindering scrutiny of individual datacentre emissions.
- US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
US tech firms, including Microsoft and trade groups, successfully lobbied the EU to include a confidentiality clause in its rules, hiding datacentre emissions data. This provision, adopted verbatim from industry demands in 2024, restricts public access to green metrics, hindering environmental scrutiny.