What is a 'breach of confidence' under contract law?

What is a 'breach of confidence' under contract law?

Michael Ehline (Attorney at Law) gives expert video advice on: What is a 'contract'?; What is a 'breach of contract'?; What is a 'breach of confidence' under contract law? and more...

A breach of confidence is basically where two parties have a contract not to reveal private privileged confidential information, and then another party breaches that confidence by revealing that information. An example of a breached confidence could be someone who worked for the Coca-Cola corporation and then took Coke's secret recipe over to Pepsi, and tried to sell it to them. That would be a typical example of what you've seen in the news recently of a breached confidence.