confidential information

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He was questioned on suspicion of misconduct in public office, after emails published in the Epstein Files seemed to suggest he had shared confidential information with Jeffrey Epstein.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

That confidential information is hers to share, if she chooses, not yours.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

Army special forces soldier, with misusing confidential information he was given about the plan to capture then-President Maduro in Venezuela.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

It defines External link illegal insider trading as “misappropriation of confidential information in breach of a pre-existing duty of trust and confidence to the source of the information.”

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

When confidential information leaks out of an organization, people suspect a spy, not a psychic.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos