Corporate responsibility used to be straightforward: a company was liable for what it did, not for what others did in its name. That line has blurred. From parent companies facing lawsuits for overseas subsidiaries to regulators testing the limits of AI accountability, this article explores how the law is quietly rewriting what it means for a corporation to be “responsible.”

“Confidential information” once meant papers locked in a drawer. Now it means data zipping across servers, screenshots, and cloud drives. As courts and companies struggle to define what confidentiality means in an age of instant sharing, this article explores how law, technology, and ethics are redrawing the line between secrecy and transparency.