that whole reddit post fiasco got me thinking about NDAs in general

like. i don’t know anymore if anything in the original post was true, but the guy started out by claiming he was breaking a NDA by saying all this

and then when the debunking article came out, it claimed that the 2 big delivery companies deny everything that post claims they do

which got me wondering– whenever someone really does break their NDA like that, what exactly can the company do?

because if they take the person to court, the case will focus on proving whether the NDA was broken

And this will require proving whether the stuff the whistle blower publicly said was actual company secrets protected by the NDA

And court cases are public record, right? So it seems to me that taking someone to court over NDA violations would basically require making all the relevant company secrets public

If keeping their secrets private is actually important to them…. then it seems a lot safer from the company’s viewpoint to just… claim that the info released in the supposed NDA violation was a bunch of made-up lies, and leave it at that

(and also not take the person to court for defamation, because that would also require opening up company secrets to a public court to determine whether the whistle blower statements were true or false)