Permitting unauthorized individuals to look over your shoulder at your computer screen while confidential data is displayed is considered a breach of confidentiality.

Permitting unauthorized individuals to look over your shoulder at your computer screen while confidential data is displayed is considered a breach of confidentiality.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not sure
• D. Not applicable

Answer: (A)

Protecting confidentiality means information should be visible only to people who are authorized. Allowing someone to glance at your screen exposes confidential data to an unauthorized person, which counts as disclosure, even if no copy is made. So the statement is true—the situation is a breach of confidentiality. The other options don’t fit: saying it’s not a breach ignores the exposure, “not sure” doesn’t resolve the issue, and “not applicable” isn’t relevant to a real confidential data exposure.

Protecting confidentiality means information should be visible only to people who are authorized. Allowing someone to glance at your screen exposes confidential data to an unauthorized person, which counts as disclosure, even if no copy is made. So the statement is true—the situation is a breach of confidentiality. The other options don’t fit: saying it’s not a breach ignores the exposure, “not sure” doesn’t resolve the issue, and “not applicable” isn’t relevant to a real confidential data exposure.