Sentences with phrase «whistleblower at»

Yesterday (27 March), the whistleblower at the centre of the scandal, Chris Wylie, told the UK House of Commons that it was «incredibly reasonable» to assume that marketing software and tactics used by Cambridge Analytica contributed to the Leave campaign's victory, setting Brexit in motion.

The whistleblower at the heart of the Facebook privacy scandal is set to testify before British lawmakers investigating the increasing rise of fake news.

The whistleblower at the center of the Facebook privacy scandal is set to testify before lawmakers investigating the rise of fake news.

The whistleblower at the center of allegations that a U.K. - based company improperly used the personal data of some 50 million Facebook users to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election has expressed regret for having taken part in the project.

The whistleblower at the heart of the Facebook privacy scandal testified before British lawmakers investigating the increasing rise of fake news.

LONDON — The whistleblower at the centre of the Cambridge Analytica scandal said he was told his predecessor was murdered in a Kenyan hotel room and that police were bribed not to investigate.

«I think it is completelyreasonable to say that there could've been a different outcomein the [EU referendum] had there not been, in my view, cheating,» the whistleblower at the heart of the Facebookprivacy scandal tells U.K. parliament #tictocnews pic.twitter.com / WyhbYbYiws

A whistleblower at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reportedly told the newspaper the agency violated scientific integrity and rushed to publish a landmark scientific paper, which showed no pause in global warming, for political reasons.

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.

The Canadian whistleblower at the center of recent international furor over misuse of Facebook data told UK lawmakers on Tuesday that one of his predecessors may have been «poisoned» a half decade ago.

Staley faces regulatory probes in the U.S. and Britain and criticism from investors following his attempts to unmask a whistleblower at the bank, which market sources including Barclays insiders fear could unseat Staley if the findings are harsh.

There were possibly whistleblowers at VW, who are still unknown, only silently giving hints to the press or environmental groups.

Whistleblowers at the centre of the «Trojan Horse» scandal were assured right from the start by Department for Education (DfE) officials that their identities would be kept a secret, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can reveal.

In addition, Williams and the coalition brought forward numerous whistleblowers at the incinerators who reported that fires, chemical agent releases and other dangerous conditions accompanied the burning of weapons at those plants.

Not exact matches

Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited academic studies on whistleblowers, a 1985 academic report by researchers at the Ohio State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»

The whistleblower worked at nine Briarwood facilities, each one containing tens of thousands of birds according to MFA estimates.

At Wednesday's hearing, State Department «whistleblower» Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission in Libya during the attacks, said that he was frustrated when the U.S. military turned down a request to dispatch four Special Operations troops stationed in Tripoli to evacuate Americans in Benghazi.

The Journal has also said that a 2005 internal audit report found improper actions in China at least two years before the whistleblower letter.

The fired whistleblower had alerted Deutsche executives to his concerns about a purported massive accounting fraud at the bank.

While journalists and academics propose Facebook make direct attempts at curbing the spread of false headlines, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Electronic Privacy Information Center president Marc Rotenberg are concerned about the influence of the company, which has nearly two billion users.

«Sarbanes - Oxley did a lot to codify protections for whistleblowers, but it didn't really change the general culture or behavior at companies,» says Andrew Sherman, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, a Washington - based law firm focused on small - business issues.

According to Sherman, who teaches an executive MBA course in business ethics at Science Application International, whistleblower protections can be a lot like paternity leave, which many employees are legally entitled to take but seldom do.

This is the second DOJ suit against the company in the past several weeks, and both cases center of whistleblower suits lobbed at UnitedHealth under the False Claims Act.

Not surprisingly, the risk of retaliation for corporate whistleblowers is far lower at businesses that have already created a strong ethical culture in the first place, the study found.

«At this event, the whistleblower met Alex Copson,» Cummings wrote.

Amazon denied overseeing employees» bathroom breaks at their U.K. Amazon Fulfillment Center, where an alleged whistleblower claimed staff were forced to urinate in bottles to save time.

At that time, Glaxo executives in China asked them to investigate a former employee, Vivian Shi, who was suspected of becoming a whistleblower and disclosing a widespread bribery scheme.

(If you're still catching up on this story, start with this look at the whistleblower, via Ad Age's Simon Dumenco.)

Kogan also hit out at the whistleblower who first revealed details of the story to the press, Christopher Wylie.

A second whistleblower from the firm also emerged at a parliamentary hearing in April claiming Britons» personal data may have been misused by a pro-Brexit campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union.

A «whistleblower» named Sandy Parakilas, who was a product manager at Facebook in 2011 and policed data breaches on the platform, testified before members of the British Parliament on Wednesday.

While at the firm, Bannon began preparing for the 2016 election two years in advance, according to Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who testified before House Democrats in a closed - door session last month.

Within hours, the White House installed a new chief of staff, Peter O'Rourke, who was a member of Trump's transition team and created the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at the VA..

The Intercept recently reported: Classified documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the National Security Agency indeed worked urgently to target bitcoin users around the world — and wielded at least one mysterious source of information to «help track down senders and receivers of Bitcoins,» according to a top - secret passage in an internal NSA report dating to March 2013.

The news that a whistleblower had contacted US regulators alleging manipulation of the VIX, a volatility index at the heart of the recent market turmoil, highlights near universal reliance on information that stock market indices provide.

According to a report by Ann Marsh, for Financial Planning on December 9, «protections for whistleblowers have broken down at the Labor Department.»

HMEPS relies in part on a whistleblower complaint filed by a JPMorgan employee who observed «questionable accounting and management practices» at the Fund.

Given the history of the crony SEC, the last place one would expect to find an Office of the Whistleblower is at the SEC.

Marsh cites examples of OSHA investigators looking into whistleblower claims at politically powerful financial firms like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, only to find themselves fired by OSHA.

American whistleblower Edward Snowden delivers remarks via video link from Moscow to attendees at a discussion regarding an International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers in Manhattan, New York September 24, 2015

American whistleblower Edward Snowden delivers remarks via video link from Moscow to attendees at a discussion regarding an International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers in Manhattan, New York September 24, 2015 REUTERS / Andrew Kelly

* Tech - savvy farmers using social media * Agribusiness, food safety activists pour money into campaigns * Whistleblowers see new laws aimed at them By P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein April 16 (Reuters)- Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely investor prepared for battle.

Meat industry lobbyists maintain that BLBT is nothing more than «lean, nutritious» beef, but it's well worth noting that two former microbiologists at USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service — now federal whistleblowers — have vociferously protested the agency's controversial decision to classify BLBT as «meat.»

In Philadelphia, Shauna is a shareholder at a law firm representing whistleblowers in state and federal courts throughout the United States.

I can't recall ever being at a conference hearing a whistleblower speak, let alone one that was confronting the company that fired him.

A die - hard Democrat, he beams across the table at this Bush insider - turned - whistleblower.

Whistleblowers claim errors with the gears and braking systems could be putting the lives of Londoners at risk.

«The governor is sending the wrong message to women when he allows his hand - picked appointments to demote and punish whistleblowers who come forward — he needs to clean house at DCJS,» Molinaro said.

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The diagram had revealed at least 150 «meaty issues», including those surrounding the treatment of whistleblowers, censorship, national security, civil liberties and international relations.