disclosures
Required information releases
Disclosures are acts of revealing information, or the information itself that gets revealed.
The word often appears in legal and financial contexts where parties are required to share relevant facts: The company's financial disclosures showed declining revenue.
A disclosure statement lists potential conflicts of interest or risks.
In casual use, any admission or confession counts: Her disclosure about the affair shocked everyone.
Entry or confession
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- secretConcealed information
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- acknowledgmentConfirmation of receipt
coming clean · truth-telling · mea culpa · exposé · unveiling · unmasking · soul-baring · tell-all
Required corporate regulatory submission
- affidavitSworn written statement
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- subpoenaWrit requiring testimony
compliance · litigation · plaintiff · defendant · evidence · court order · regulatory · confidentiality agreement
Obligation for one's actions
- public recordOfficially accessible government information
- freedom of informationPublic access to state records
- sunshine lawsLegislation mandating government transparency
- open governmentRight to state information
oversight · audit · whistleblowing · ethics · governance · scrutiny · accessibility · public interest
Permission given with understanding
- side effectsUnintended treatment consequences
- risk factorsElements increasing adverse outcomes
- clinical trialHuman subject research experiment
- patient historyChronicle of prior health
diagnosis · prognosis · treatment options · medical records · health information · pharmaceutical · drug interactions · warning label
Statement of company profits
- annual reportOrganization's periodic financial summary
- investor relationsCorporate communication with shareholders
- risk factorsElements increasing adverse outcomes
- footnotesMarginal citations below text
balance sheet · liabilities · assets · insider trading · shareholder · conflict of interest · executive compensation · restatement
Voluntary agreement given
- data breachUnauthorized access to protected information
- GDPREU data protection law
- HIPAAMedical privacy statute
- privacy policyPersonal information usage statement
terms of service · opt-in · opt-out · personal information · sensitive data · cookies · tracking · anonymization
admission
Entry or confession
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- secretConcealed information
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
acknowledgment · coming clean · truth-telling · mea culpa · exposé · unveiling · unmasking · soul-baring · tell-all · whistleblower
SEC filing
Required corporate regulatory submission
- affidavitSworn written statement
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
subpoena · compliance · litigation · plaintiff · defendant · evidence · court order · regulatory · confidentiality agreement · due process
accountability
Obligation for one's actions
- public recordOfficially accessible government information
- freedom of informationPublic access to state records
- sunshine lawsLegislation mandating government transparency
open government · oversight · audit · whistleblowing · ethics · governance · scrutiny · accessibility · public interest · watchdog
informed consent
Permission given with understanding
- side effectsUnintended treatment consequences
- risk factorsElements increasing adverse outcomes
- clinical trialHuman subject research experiment
patient history · diagnosis · prognosis · treatment options · medical records · health information · pharmaceutical · drug interactions · warning label · contraindications
earnings report
Statement of company profits
- annual reportOrganization's periodic financial summary
- investor relationsCorporate communication with shareholders
- risk factorsElements increasing adverse outcomes
footnotes · balance sheet · liabilities · assets · insider trading · shareholder · conflict of interest · executive compensation · restatement · write-down
consent
Voluntary agreement given
- data breachUnauthorized access to protected information
- GDPREU data protection law
- HIPAAMedical privacy statute
privacy policy · terms of service · opt-in · opt-out · personal information · sensitive data · cookies · tracking · anonymization · de-identification
- complianceaudit, obeying, policy, compliance officer, regulation
- contract termscontract terms, agreement, terms, conditions, condition
- Disclosuresfinancial statements, annual reports, quarterly reports, earnings reports, audit reports
- SEC10-K, commissioner, commissioners, chair, chairman
- Confidencessecrets, confessions, admissions, revelations, trusts
- ad rulesfalse advertising, ad ban, deceptive ads, misleading labels, disclaimers
disclosuresconcealments
Acts of hiding something
cover-ups · secrets · suppressions · withholdings · nondisclosures
disclosurescover-ups
Acts of concealing wrongdoing
whitewashes · obfuscations · stonewalling · deceptions · dissimulation
disclosurescover-ups
Acts of concealing wrongdoing
concealments · suppressions · withholdings · silences · omissions
- full disclosureWithholding no information
- non-disclosure agreementContract binding parties to secrecy
- public disclosureRevealing information openly
- financial disclosuresRequired reports of holdings
- disclosure formDocument requiring stated information
- disclosure statementFormal revelation of relevant facts