Trade secret theft can cause significant harm to a business. At the same time, businesses sometimes intentionally suppress information that might harm sales if publicly known. Suppose an employee of a lithium battery manufacturer believes internal company data suggest that its batteries will perform much more poorly than the manufacturer’s advertisements imply. The company takes the position that the internal performance data are trade secrets, and that the employee has misunderstood the data because she does not have adequate technical expertise. The employee, confident of her interpretation and seeking to protect the public from what she believes is fraudulent and illegal behavior, emails the data to her state attorney general’s office. The office, however, takes months to respond, promising only that it “will investigate the matter.” Concerned that the attorney general’s slow response could leave consumers unprotected, the employee then emails the data to a reporter at the New York Times. Assuming the employee has acted in good faith but that she has disclosed trade secrets, do you think these disclosures were ethical?