Abstract
The confidentiality clause and the service secret are two means coming from different branches of law, public and private, but they have the same goal – to protect information, the component of a person’s patrimony, which is a more and more important issue in the world we live in. The protections provided by the two ways are different in terms of the gravity of the penalty they may involve and for this reason they may be used with discrimination, proportionally with the importance of the protected object. But in the present conditions when the information is sancta sanctorum, only this responsibility in punishment tends to dim, those interested in providing the protection of information seek for most effective and efficient punishment.