NVIDIA requests a confidentiality agreement to swear that 'any confidential information is used for the benefit of NVIDIA', the rejected media publishes the document

A German IT news site, heise online , requested to conclude a new confidentiality agreement (NDA) from NVIDIA, severely criticized the content of the contract as "the principle of journalism" and criticized the text of the contract It has become a situation to be disclosed.

In eigener Sache: Nvidia-NDA als Maulkorb für Journalisten | heise online
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Heise who received a document requesting a new NDA from NVIDIA on June 20, 2018 confirmed its contents. The agreement for NDA is written in English, and it is said that the Ministry of Justice translated it in the heise of the German media and reviewed the contents.

This is the document of NVIDIA sent to heise.

The basic principle of "solely for the benefit of NVIDIA (to use exclusively for the benefit of NVIDIA)" is written in the item "3. Use restriction" of confidential information provided by NVIDIA. There is discussion on how to interpret "solely", but it is natural to receive "It can not be used as information that becomes NVIDIA's disadvantage", and heise is also received as it is.

Furthermore, this NDA is binding on the media seeking long-term compliance as "five years from the conclusion", and it is unusual to request a reply "two days after June 22, 2018" two days after the arrival of the document It was content.

Heise acknowledges the need to hide the information provider's information in technical journalism but also requests that you write only articles that are in line with NVIDIA's intention without criticism and content that binds the media for too long Is contrary to the spirit of journalism and criticizes it as having great influence on media activities such as product criticism.

NVIDIA told heise that "many journalists" have already agreed to the NDA. However, "independent media can not sign such a contract," heise said, and even if you lose the right to receive the product before the information lifting in the future, the decision to protect your journalism doing.

In a warped way of thinking, the media that receives confidential information from NVIDIA in the future will have accepted this NDA, "the credibility of such media's content is questionable," the eyes of doubt If you invite a situation that can be told, the contract terms required by NVIDIA are said to be disadvantageous not only for media but also for users.