Re:Founder of Facebook's Oculus hit with lawsuit
by saurik on Sunday May 24, 2015 @08:34PM
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> Even if I knew about the technology before working there, I would still technically be violating a NDA.
You might be in danger of someone arguing you are violating the NDA, and this might be sufficient liability that you don't want to take that risk, but "technically" you would not be violating almost any reasonable NDA (of course, someone could draft one that was insane) if you learned the information in question through a source that is not covered by the NDA (and this is true even if you "learned" the information a second time due to it being disclosed in some other way later).
You might be in danger of someone arguing you are violating the NDA, and this might be sufficient liability that you don't want to take that risk, but "technically" you would not be violating almost any reasonable NDA (of course, someone could draft one that was insane) if you learned the information in question through a source that is not covered by the NDA (and this is true even if you "learned" the information a second time due to it being disclosed in some other way later).