New York Consolidated Laws, General Business Law - GBS § 82. Employees not to divulge information or make false reports

Any person who is or has been an employee of a holder of a license shall not divulge to any one other than his employer, or as his employer shall direct, except as he may be required by law, any information acquired by him during such employment in respect of any of the work to which he shall have been assigned by such employer.  Any such employee violating the provisions of this section and any such employee who shall wilfully make a false report to his employer in respect of any of such work, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  The employer of any employee believed to have violated this section shall without any liability whatsoever upon said employer supply the secretary of state or such officer or person in the department of state as the secretary of state may designate, all the known facts and circumstances in connection with the said employee's transaction or performance or action believed to be in violation of this article and the secretary of state or his authorized representative shall, should the facts and circumstances be deemed to warrant, conduct further investigation and submit the evidence thus acquired to the attorney-general of the state for appropriate action in accordance with the provisions of section eighty-five of this chapter.