The confidential information can be:
- of personal nature, such as data on clients, as their date of birth, social insurance number, financial situation, etc.;
- of commercial, financial, industrial, technical or scientific nature, such as a chemical formula, a recipe, a list of suppliers, distributors or clients, a manufacturing process or any mechanism whatsoever, a method of sale or distribution, a profile of consumers, the financial statements of a business corporation with private capitalization, an advertising strategy.
We could continue the nomenclature to infinity according to the type of businesses and employment.