How NDAs Left The Office And Entered Our Homes

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

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One legal document has quietly reigned supreme in American board rooms, film sets, and sometimes even homes: non-disclosure agreements.

But NDAs aren't just for employees anymore. More and more people around the country are using and signing these documents to protect personal, sensitive information.

A new feature from New York Magazine explores how NDAs have become "the defining legal document of our time." We speak to the writer of that piece.

What discuss what's fueling the move and its impact.

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0:00.0	Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.
0:07.0	If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.
0:12.0	I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely
0:15.0	American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American
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0:24.0	If it seems like you're hearing more about nondisclosure agreements or NDA's more than ever lately,
0:37.0	well, that's not a coincidence.
0:39.0	The proposal to ban nondisclosure agreements during lawmaking negotiations has
0:43.7	officially been written into a bill at the state capital.
0:46.8	So why haven't people come forward before now? Well we're exploring the colossal
0:51.2	non-disclosure agreements,
0:53.0	those in Combs' inner circle may have had to sign.
0:55.9	That in the final days of O.J Simpson's life,
0:57.8	all his kids and visitors who came to his bedside
1:01.0	had to sign an NDA.
1:02.8	Trump then stopped, looked up at the cameras and added, in his own words, quote,
1:06.9	I have the only illegal NDA.
1:10.0	And as far as my notes can tell, this is the first time that Donald Trump has ever acknowledged
1:14.2	this being his NDA with Stormy Daniels.
1:17.8	An NDA issued by former President Donald Trump was a focus of the New York criminal trial against him, a trial that led to 34 guilty convictions in May.
1:26.0	A new feature from New York magazine explores how NDA's have become, quote,
1:31.0	the defining legal document of our time, and we'll speak to the writer of
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