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Your department has just hired a new employee who previously worked for a Bridgestone competitor.Can this person share information about her former employer?Although the new employee may of course use the professional skills she has acquired throughout her career, she is not permitted to use or share trade secrets or sensitive competitive information she learned while working for her former employer. And she should never seek to obtain competitive information about her former employer from former coworkers or other business contacts.You may not ask for or allow the new employee to volunteer any such information about her former employer. Speak to your supervisor or the Law Department if you have any questions.BRIDGESTONE INTEGRITY IN THE MARKETPLACE29From the Field