1.   Confidential data contain material that is secret but whose existence is not a secret.

2.   Measures must be taken to prevent confidential data from being misused.

3.   The two parties encode confidential data in a form that is not directly readable by the other party.

4.   To combat such break-ins, instruct employees to report unfamiliar visitors and refrain from typing their passwords and other confidential data when others are nearby.

5.   The triple computer system contained confidential clinical data including details of how long patients had to live.

6.   Bullock is a free-lance systems analyst who stumbles onto highly confidential data of international importance.

7.   But the greatest use of encryption is by banks and other legal businesses that need to transmit confidential data without fear of interception.

8.   CVS says it never sold information or released confidential data.

9.   Critics of the MTA contract, including the Straphangers Campaign, a rider advocacy group, also said the MTA failed to say how it would protect confidential data.