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How to avoid accidentally sharing proprietary information of a former employer?

I worked for Company A on Product X, with intimate knowledge of its implementation as well as in-development features. My contract with A included a confidentiality agreement (with a survivorship c...

No: business plans, financial data, costing, pricing, product road map. Yes: general best practices, industry and application/product domain knowledge (even if gained at the employer), frameworks/processes/tools (unless they are highly proprietary and home grown). It was hysterical: they had no idea how to handle a request like this and it took them three month to come up with an extremely carefully worded reply that really didn't say much :-)

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