Walrus NDA
In the process of interviewing for Walrus Finance, I was asked to sign an NDA to protect their proprietary information. This is entirely reasonable and I intend to follow it.
However it also included a provision that the mere existence of this NDA is confidential information. This I believe to be unreasonable, as it removes from me even the ability to explain why I am not answering a question I've been posed. Worse, it potentially makes me liable for not actively misleading others, if my non-deceptive behavior (like telling someone "sorry, I can't answer that") would imply the existence of such an NDA. I have no interest in imposing such Kafkaesque restrictions on my ability to communicate with others.
I asked Walrus if we could remove this stipulation from the contract and they acceded to this via email, but the new contract they sent only removed it from one sentence and still includes it in another. I don't know if this was intentional or an oversight on their part, but rather than confront them about it I'm just going to circumvent the issue by noting there's an exception that the NDA does not apply to:
"information that Recipient can establish by competent proof [...] becomes publicly known and made generally available after disclosure to Recipient by Company other than as a result of a breach of this Agreement[.]"
I can't breach the NDA before signing it, so here's the full text of the NDA: Walrus NDA
This page is publicly accessible from my website, so the terms and existence of the NDA are now publicly known and generally available, which allows me to discuss them even after signing.
Problem solved.
