Each individual villager had signed an NDA, yet few knew what specific safeguards they, individually, should have applied to the highlysensitiveinformation.
They were also slow to realise that senior managers at Vivendi were exploiting the agencies' traditional reluctance to force an issuer to make public highlysensitive internal financial information.
News reports criticized AOL, saying that releasing such data could help advertisers identify people who had searched for information on highlysensitive topics such as medical conditions and criminal behavior.
Perhaps most damaging of all, a wealth of information about non-intelligence-related, but highlysensitive , programs he was assigned to protect from foreign espionage.