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:“'''''[[Confidential Information - Confi Provision|Confidential Information]]''' means [[Any and all|all and any]] information disclosed by either Party to the other Party, [[whether]] in writing or other [[tangible]] form, in any way relating or pertaining to the disclosing party...''” | :“'''''[[Confidential Information - Confi Provision|Confidential Information]]''' means [[Any and all|all and any]] information disclosed by either Party to the other Party, [[whether]] in writing or other [[tangible]] form, in any way relating or pertaining to the disclosing party...''” | ||
“[[Tangible]]”, so the internets tell us, means “perceptible by touch”. Now the ''[[substrate]]'' in which writing was traditionally embedded — paper — is assuredly [[tangible]]. But, unless your writing is braille, or so expensively embossed that one can detect the letters when one brushes one’s fingers over the onionskin, ''writing'' is not [[tangible]]. Certainly not when, as is common in these dark modern times, writing is not embedded in a physical [[substrate]] at all, but represented by the orientation of millions of liquid crystals between perpendicular polarising elements<ref>Thanks, internet.</ref> | “[[Tangible]]”, so the internets tell us, means “perceptible by touch”. Now the ''[[substrate]]'' in which writing was traditionally embedded — paper — is assuredly [[tangible]]. But, unless your writing is braille, or so expensively embossed that one can detect the letters when one brushes one’s fingers over the onionskin, ''writing'' is not [[tangible]]. Certainly not when, as is common in these dark modern times, writing is not embedded in a physical [[substrate]] at all, but represented by the orientation of millions of liquid crystals between perpendicular polarising elements on an LED display.<ref>Thanks, internet.</ref> Writing is information. Information is an abstract concatenation of binary values. It has no physical dimension. You can’t touch it. Indeed the digital revolution through which we are living, loving and relentlessly bullshitting on [[LinkedIn]] dates back to the moment, in the early 19th Century, when Monsieur [[Jacquard loom|Jacquard]] figured out how to perform that exact abstraction. | ||
So, hard lines if, when hammering-out that confi you sagely restricted it to “[[tangible]]” forms of information. | So, hard lines if, when hammering-out that confi you sagely restricted it to “[[tangible]]” forms of information. | ||
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