Question

8. Jason was the Director of Internal Communications at NPC, Inc. Jason learned that Ruth, an

Pso n feas of mmineut lodidy heon,office employee ofNPC, had tested positive for HIV. Subsequently, Jason published anarticle 3 in the NPC's company newsletter disclosing Ruth's positive HIN-test results. NPC may be held liable for disclosure of embarrassing private facts since a reasonable person would r consider the disclosure very embarrassing and the information is not of legitimate concern to the public.

True or False? explain

Answer 1

This statement is true.

Explaination : In the given statement, Jason was the director of internal communication at NPC so firstly he has right to know about their employees including their personal things and secondly he is himself in the field of communication. And As Ruth, had HIV in this case and here it is the duty of Jason to communicate to people because of two reasons :

• To prevent the spread of HIV &
• If he doesn't communicate this to public, there may be chances other player in market communicate it in wrong manner.

Also the information is not a legitimate concern about people as people have a right to know about everything. However it may be legitimate if he or some other person convey in wrong manner and if we talk about embarrassing here, this may be a positive symbol that, Jason take care about his employees also. Hence, Jason has done right thing and he needs to communicate to public when Ruth recovered from his disease.