Can an Independent Contractor share your trade secrets?

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From the Oregon Business Report —

A recent case out of Massachusetts held that, as a matter of law, in the absence of a confidentiality agreement (or a formal confidentiality policy), an independent contractor was free to disclose a company’s trade secrets, including customer names, pricing information, business processes and work flow patterns, information about business relationships with other companies, and accounting records….”

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