Sentences with phrase «after whistleblower»

That's no longer the case after a whistleblower...

After a whistleblower came forward and as The Guardian and The New York Times were preparing to publish exposés, Facebook said on Friday that the data it used for ad targeting was improperly obtained and shut it down.

The company has faced a global outcry after a whistleblower said that data from millions of users was improperly harvested by consultancy Cambridge Analytica to target US and British voters in close - run elections.

His intervention came after a whistleblower spoke to the Observer and described how the profiles, mostly of US voters, were harvested for Cambridge Analytica, in one of Facebook's biggest ever data breaches.

Elizabeth Denham, the head of Britain's Information Commission, is seeking a warrant to search the offices of consultancy Cambridge Analytica after a whistleblower revealed it had harvested the private information of millions of people to support Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

The decision to prosecute Mrs Devers, an East London market trader, for the heinous offence of selling a bowl of fruit is now being independently investigated after a whistleblower reported that she was singled out for prosecution for her opposition to compulsory metrication.

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But the investigation was not published until almost a year after the whistleblower's approach, as the National Union of Teachers prepared to publish its own documents about the mismanagement at the free school.

Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson violated the city's ethics rules when she solicited a donation from a major food service contractor shortly after a whistleblower lawsuit accused the company of swindling millions of dollars from the school system, according to a ruling from the D.C.'s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.

She points to a 2017 study of search engine queries before and after whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed government surveillance programs in 2013.

The firms agreed to pay a total of $ 825,000 in fines after a whistleblower reported to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that they had skirted diversity hiring rules.

In recent days, there has been even more consternation among people who trade in volatility after a whistleblower wrote a letter to US regulators alleging that there's a scheme to manipulate the VIX.

The Salvation Army is currently going through such a situation after a whistleblower informed the organization that $ 2 million in donated toys had disappeared from — or wasn't delivered to — their main warehouse in north Toronto over roughly two years.

Not exact matches

The public learned of the agency's spying program after Edward Snowden — ex-NSA contractor and whistleblower extraordinaire — leaked information about it to news outlets in 2013.

The app cut ties with Cambridge Analytica in Mexico after the British company was accused by a whistleblower of improperly accessing data to target US and British voters in recent elections.

It also comes after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed widespread intrusion by US intelligence agencies, who claimed that they could readily access personal data stored by companies such as Facebook and Google.

The bank has been struggling to shake off issues with its reputation after several years of scandal, the most recent of which centered on allegations of unlawful whistleblower mistreatment in early 2017.

Soon after contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked a trove of NSA internal documents in 2013, Filippelli says that RedOwl's appeal leaped from a «nice to have» to a «need to have» among potential customers.

The influential public accounts committee concluded that Google's Irish employees simply processed the bills, after hearing evidence from a former employee turned whistleblower who lifted the lid on what he described as Google's «immoral» tax schemes.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem after talks were canceled last year when the diplomat met with an Israeli whistleblower group critical of the military.

In the worst cases, whistleblowers claim they were fired after reporting violations to the bank's ethics hotline or trying to alert supervisors to illegal behavior.

The Supreme Court says whistleblower protections passed by Congress after the 2008 financial crisis only apply to people who report problems to the government, not more broadly.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said through a spokeswoman that the government took a series of measures, both before and after the accident, including investing $ 100 million in the railway safety system, increasing fines for companies that broke the rules, and bringing in new whistleblower protection.

The Rajoy government's timing could also have been better, coming just months after the European Parliament called for greater protection for whistleblowers like Falciani in its conclusions on the Panama Papers scandal:

A day earlier, reports surfaced that aadhaar information through EPFO has been leaked, after previous reports of data leak of 8.9 Mn people which came to light through an Aadhaar whistleblower Srinivas Kodali, who shared the screenshots of Aadhaar data details of MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) beneficiaries.

It is the second proposed movie on the scandal that thrust tax havens and transparency into the spotlight after the details of hundreds of thousands of clients» tax affairs were leaked from Panama - based law firm Mossack Fonseca in April by an anonymous whistleblower.

Jennifer Robinson, another of McGowan's lawyers, said after the hearing that «Rose is a brave whistleblower who has been the subject of a vicious vilification campaign by one of the most powerful men, in the most powerful industries in this country.»

Revelations about the snooping activities of GCHQ - which saw diplomats» emails reportedly hacked and their phone call activity monitored by a team of 45 analysts - come after US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the UK could have benefited from an American snooping programme known as «Prism».

The meeting follows a period of unprecedented controversy for Britain's security services, after the scale of surveillance by GCHQ and the NSA was revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

A whistleblower triumphed in a 20 - year battle with City Hall in NYC, winning more than $ 1 million to compensate for a pay cut and demotion he suffered after reporting corruption.

After an audit by the Erie County Comptroller's office bore out whistleblowers» claims of inflated billing and inadequate training, Urban League President Brenda McDuffie and her supporters say it's a political witch hunt.

Former whistleblower and current Maryland Senate candidate Chelsea Manning made a surprise appearance, speaking briefly with Project Veritas» James O'Keefe — who came under fire this year after his organization attempted an undercover sting operation to discredit the accusers of former Alabama GOP candidate Roy Moore.

The tabloid said it used the same cocaine swabs as those used by the police after being tipped off by a whistleblower.

A longtime critic and whistleblower at the state Office for People with Developmental Disabilities said he received a visit from the State Police last month after he was suspended in connection with a two - year - old allegation.

Hodge said: the department had been forced to follow up allegations brought to the committee's attention after MPs heard evidence from whistleblowers who alleged that private companies were at the centre of fraudulent activity.

Whistleblowers in recent days contend that Cambridge Analytica collected information about users and their friends under a since - ceased policy governing third - party apps on Facebook — then kept that data even after Facebook asked that it be deleted.

The case is among the 50 or so reports that came into the Erie County Comptroller's Office after Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw invited county employees to call his Whistleblower Hotline to report bedbug complaints.

The internet company conducted the surveillance last year after receiving a classified demand from the National Security Agency or the FBI, three whistleblowers have told Reuters

Nearly two months after U.S. federal prosecutors charged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property for blowing the lid off of the clandestine surveillance program, the company that secured Snowden's electronic communications with journalists and international -LSB-...]

Whistleblowers raised questions about Macchiarini's work in 2014, but KI stood by the surgeon, extending his contract even after an independent investigator found that the allegations had merit.

The whistleblower's story - of how two brands of the three - in - one measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) were marketed in the UK (and worldwide) after having been withdrawn in Canada - was well known at the time Wakefield spoke.

Davis is pretty quickly thrown together with Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris, deserving more after her turn in «Moonlight»), a scientist turned whistleblower, who worked for the bad guys and thinks she might know a cure.

Davis is beautiful briefly thrown along side Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris, deserving extra after her flip in «Moonlight»), a scientist became whistleblower, who labored for the unhealthy guys and thinks she would possibly know a treatment.

After hearing a long speech regarding the way WikiLeaks protects its sources and its communications through encrypted chats and document sharing, director Bill Condon and screenwriter Josh Singer visualize the concept with a vast, open office space containing desks with nameplates featuring the monikers of the organization's hundreds of volunteers and, in one instance, showing how the white - haired leader met in secret with a shadowy whistleblower.

Well - intentioned but outraged in only a general sort of way, The Whistleblower tells the story of how the United Nations, the United States State Department, and a private military company (The name of the real - life counterpart has been changed in this telling) worked in tandem with different motivations (survival, to avoid blowback, and to maintain a profitable contract) in an attempt to hush up a sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia - Herzegovina in the years after the Bosnian War.

Before you start wondering about conspiracy theories — this is from the man behind JFK, and tells the story of the whistleblower who took on the US government, after all — The Hollywood Reporter's sources say it's because the film isn't finished yet.

A struggling UTC must join a «strong» multi-academy trust and improve its finances, after reports from a whistleblower prompted an investigation by government funding bosses.

On top of that, this also includes the Whistleblower DLC Campaign that takes place before, during, and after the events of the main game.

After a slight delay, PC and PS4 players will finally be able to get their hands on the Whistleblower DLC for the horror survival title Outlast on May 6th.

Rick Piltz, a gutsy whistleblower who revealed a pattern of politically torqued rewriting of climate science reports during the first term of President George W. Bush, died early Saturday morning after a fight with cancer.