The PCC said Sutcliffe had freely given the information to his acquaintance and that no confidential relationship arose between both men.
After Jennifer Cahill changed jobs a few weeks ago, one of the first things she did was spend a few minutes "Plaxo-ing" her new contact information to 400 friends and business acquaintances.
In P2P systems, each peer has to obtain information of other peers and propagate the information to other peers through neighbor (acquaintance) peers.
They rarely smile at strangers, ask casual acquaintances personal questions, or offer personal information to those they don't know intimately.
In early 2010, she leaked classified information to WikiLeaks and confided this to Adrian Lamo, an online acquaintance.
Business acquaintances and meeting attendees now transmit contact information between cellphones, and Web sites and mobile apps can connect that information to social and business networks.
He also noted that Uber presents employees with a pop-up each time they access customer data which warns them not to abuse their access to look for information about personal acquaintances or celebrities, that access to data is limited based on employees' roles at the company, and that access is audited regularly to detect abuse.
The principal researcher emailed an information sheet to potential participants at her workplace, and to acquaintances, requesting them to indicate their willingness to participate by contacting the principal researcher.
The one about whom I still discreetly try to get information from mutual acquaintances.
Move on to acquaintances.
A jury thus had considerable freedom to draw that inference from the lack of legitimate business justification for passing the information on to a casual acquaintance with ties to Wall Street, and how the information was interpreted and processed at the other end of the pipeline, inside the hedge fund.
