State-owned enterprises will not only produce state secrets related to national security and interests, but also a large number of trade secrets. However, state-owned enterprises, especially large state-owned enterprises, have many levels and wide distribution of subordinate units, with a large number of personnel and complex structures, and there are many risks and hidden dangers in the transmission and implementation of documents by superiors, the management of personnel involved in secrets, the management of state secret carriers, and the management of secret-related projects, and there are frequent incidents of leakage of secrets. The staff of state-owned enterprises should attach great importance to secrecy work, understand the common methods of stealing secrets, leaking secrets, and channels for losing secrets, master the necessary secrecy prevention skills, and ensure the absolute security of state secrets and commercial secrets.
Typical cases
Case 1
Disclosure of classified economic data in violation of regulations
During his work in a central enterprise financial institution, Wu violated confidentiality regulations by deliberately leaking 25 confidential statistical data that he learned at the price monitoring and analysis expert consultation meeting that had not yet been released to the public to 15 people including Wei and Liu, who were practitioners in the securities industry, 224 times. After identification, the above 25 statistical data are all secret-level state secrets. In the end, Wu was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the crime of intentionally leaking state secrets.
Case 2
Businesses are openly promoting the relaxation of censorship
When a certain magazine organized the selection of advanced typical figures, a certain military industrial enterprise did not conduct a strict secrecy review when it submitted the relevant information of the candidates to the magazine, resulting in the publication of advanced deeds containing secrets in the magazine. After the incident occurred, the relevant departments discovered in a timely manner that the magazine that published the contents of the secret was destroyed, and no serious consequences were caused by the leakage of secrets.
Case 3
Confidential notices are sent to WeChat groups in violation of regulations
In March 2022, a group issued a secret-level notice, requiring it to be communicated and implemented step by step. Qu, an employee of a third-level enterprise under the group, usually has little contact with state secrets and does not have a strong sense of confidentiality, so he sent the notice to the WeChat work group of the production line, causing a leak. After the case occurred, Qu was given a warning and deducted performance wages.
Countermeasures and suggestions
Strict protection of economic data is related to the stable operation of the economy
1. Promptly define the attributes of economic data involving secrets, and clearly distinguish between state secrets and commercial secrets.
2. Improve the management of confidentiality in all aspects of data collection, storage, use, processing, transmission, provision, disclosure, etc., and perform approval and registration formalities for borrowing, copying, submitting, exchanging, and providing confidential economic data.
3. Remind employees of enterprises who know or have access to confidential information, and must not provide or disclose confidential economic data to the outside world without authorization.
4. Organize a confidentiality review.
Business negotiations are confidential, and the negotiation table is disciplined
1. Formulate a confidentiality plan in advance, and protect the negotiation plan, strategy, and reserve price as core trade secrets.
2. Limit the number of negotiating members to a minimum as needed, clarify confidentiality discipline and requirements, and strengthen confidentiality education and supervision.
3. Disclose information in a unified manner, and must not arbitrarily express an attitude without authorization.
4. If you encounter a major problem and need to ask the unit for instructions remotely, you should take confidentiality measures.
External publicity should be cautious, and confidentiality review should be done first
1. Conduct a confidentiality review of the content to be publicly publicized and reported to ensure that it does not involve state secrets, commercial secrets, and sensitive information within the unit.
2. Manuscripts, interviews, and self-media information can only be disclosed after passing the confidentiality review of the relevant competent departments of the unit.
3. Remind media reporters of confidentiality, and clarify the confidentiality requirements for publicity and reporting.
The entrusted service is valuable and confidential, and it is strictly reviewed to ensure safety
1. For intermediary service activities involving state secrets, the entrusted institution shall be reviewed for confidentiality qualifications.
2. In general, it is not allowed to entrust overseas institutions, Sino-foreign cooperative institutions, or overseas institutions with equity participation or capital injection to undertake secret-related service business.
3. When signing the entrusted service contract, a confidentiality agreement should be signed, and confidentiality education should be carried out for the participants.
4. When providing documents and materials involving state secrets or commercial secrets to the entrusted institution, the procedures for approval, registration and receipt shall be carried out in accordance with the procedures, and confidentiality reminders shall be made.
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