Gig Work, Big Risk: Protecting Trade Secrets In The Freelance Economy"

Introduction:

We are currently in the era of rapid technological advancements and increased knowledge-sharing, where the employees are not just working but having access to companies very important data and information. With this comes the risk of data breach. Its punishable if done during the course of employment but after leaving the job or work, the risk still persists. This key issue was resolved in the case of Niranjan Shankar Golikari vs The Century Spinning And Mfg. Co. Ltd ¹ when the company has stopped the employee from working anywhere else after quitting the job in his company, but the court ruled that you cannot stop an employee from working somewhere else but as this would be violation of Section 27 of Indian Contract Act, 1872², which prohibits any person to restrain the other person from trade, instead they have to protect trade secrets of the previous company.