1. The responsibilities for violating the secrecy law include:
(1) Civil liability. The company may require employees to compensate for the losses caused to the company due to breach of contract or infringement;
(2) administrative responsibility. The administrative department for industry and commerce has the right to order it to stop the illegal act according to law, and may impose a fine of 1 10,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan according to the circumstances. At the same time, the administrative department for industry and commerce may also order the infringer to return the drawings, software and other relevant materials containing trade secrets to the obligee or destroy them;
(3) criminal responsibility. For the parties who violate the confidentiality agreement and cause serious consequences, China's criminal law stipulates the crime of infringing trade secrets.
2. Legal basis: Article 2 19 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
The crime of infringing on business secrets has one of the following acts of infringing on business secrets, and if the circumstances are serious, it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined: obtaining the business secrets of the obligee by theft, bribery, fraud, coercion, electronic intrusion or other improper means; Disclosing, using or allowing others to use the business secrets of the obligee obtained by the means mentioned in the preceding paragraph; Disclosing, using or allowing others to use the business secrets in their possession in violation of the confidentiality obligation or the obligee's requirements on keeping business secrets.
Second, what is the lawyer's duty of confidentiality?
1. The lawyer's duty of confidentiality means that a lawyer comes into contact with the client's personal privacy, business secrets or other personal data and information in his practice, and shall not disclose it to a third party, including the media or even state organs, without the client's consent;
2, lawyers in practice, in order to understand the case, it is inevitable to know a lot of data, information and evidence of the client, some are the client's privacy, some are business secrets, some are not privacy and business secrets, which will have an adverse impact on the client, and lawyers have the responsibility to keep secrets for the client;
3. The lawyer's duty of confidentiality is determined by the nature of his profession, which is the legal obligation of the lawyer and the contractual obligation entrusted by him. Even if there is no confidentiality obligation in the contract, the lawyer's confidentiality obligation cannot be exempted. Of course, if the client authorizes the lawyer to disclose relevant information, the lawyer is allowed to disclose any privacy or business secrets without exceeding his authority;
4. Lawyers who violate confidentiality obligations and cause reputational losses or economic losses to clients shall be liable for compensation.