Although scientists make a good faith effort to comply with disclosure clauses, most are not well trained in understanding the legal nuances involved.
The payment was agreed earlier this year, but can be revealed only now because of a non-disclosure clause that was part of the settlement.
That agreement included a non-disclosure clause pertaining to speaking negatively of the company.
The company said that more than half included a non-disclosure clause that prevented the company from informing the user.
The majority of the requests (56percentt) received from U.S. law enforcement contained a non-disclosure clause that prevented Facebook from notifying the user in question, the company noted.
U.S. requests stayed roughly the same at 32,742; though 62percentt included a non-disclosure clause that prohibited Facebook from alerting the user – that's up from 57percentt in the earlier part of the year, and up from 50percentt from the report before that.
A settlement was offered, with the standard non-disclosure clause - payment for silence, a hallmark of malpractice litigation that must end.
In each case, YouCo is free to offer a "settlement" to the party suing them, with a "non-disclosure" clause buried within it.
I was also nervous because, even though I was already starting the gig, after weeks of negotiations he had yet to sign our contract, which included a non-disclosure clause.
