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>> Action A+B is illegal, and A by itself and B by itself are legal. A company did A+B, but the individual employees only did A, or only did B, and neither knew about the other.

That's a really interesting idea. Can you give some real live example of such situation that really happened?

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Many "if you know X, you cant do Y" kind.

If you know floor is wet, you cant let people in

If you know insider information, you cant trade.

If you know sb have disabilities, you must provide assistance.

If you give immunity for these, the lawyer will ensure the one in the act never know those information. OTOH, if we hold this to a person, someone can be hold accountable for some systemic communication failure

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