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On June 11, the Manitoba government introduced proposed amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure Act to protect whistleblowers from reprisal, prevent disclosure of identities and give designated officers greater powers to investigate wrongdoing... [more]

In the past, the German legal system did not provide a comprehensive protection of whistleblowers from retaliation.

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On June 11, the Manitoba government introduced proposed amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure Act to protect whistleblowers from reprisal, prevent disclosure of identities and give designated officers greater powers to investigate wrongdoing.

Government Accountability Project: «We look forward to the appointment of a Special Counsel who will prioritize protecting whistleblowers from retaliation over pursuing... Continue reading →

GAP's seasoned attorneys, with 40 years of experience protecting and assisting whistleblowers from all walks of life, will be continuing to support his cause and that of any other courageous souls who, perhaps newly inspired by Clement's bravery, stand up, fight back, and speak truth to power.

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, attorney Daniel Felber and Sen. Diane Savino hold a news conference to call for passage of a bill that would protect financial industry whistleblowers from employer retaliation; conference room, 20th floor, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

A whistleblower from the agency told a Russian TV station in October 2017 that the agency had created a fake Clinton porn video.

A whistleblower from the Internet Research Agency, former employee Alan Baskaev, told Russia's TV Rain last October that the troll farm had created a fake Hillary Clinton porn video.

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.

Probably the only whistleblower from inside the multinational company, who reported about his practices as baby milk salesman with doctors and hospitals in Pakistan.

Mr. Stringer brought up a whistleblower from North American Iron Works, who said he realized that he was being underpaid and had the knowledge to contact the comptroller's office.

Bloomberg Law is reporting that a little - noticed lawsuit filed in New York federal court accuses a former federal prosecutor of unethically preventing a whistleblower from telling the FTC that he hacked an embattled company's files using «FBI surveillance software» that the prosecutor gave him.

A few days before the result of the tender were released, a whistleblower from the Legal Aid Agency revealed that the Ministry of Justice had recruited low paid, unqualified, inexperienced agency workers to assess the bids.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal emerged into the public eye earlier this month, when a whistleblower from data firm Cambridge Analytica revealed to The Guardian and the New York Times how the company harvested data from Facebook to fuel its political operations.

First, that a whistleblower from Cambridge Analytica revealed «a major breach» of Facebook's data, an issue covered above, and second, that this «breach» was linked to the success of Trump's presidential campaign.

A whistleblower from Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie, described in detail how the company exploited Facebook users by harvesting their data and building models to «target their inner demons.»

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Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, is answering questions from the public in a live written chat right now on The Guardian's website.

Paris (AFP)- American and British spy agencies have tried to intercept data from passengers» mobile phones on commercial airlines including Air France, media reports say, citing documents from US whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Jackie Hosang Lawson and Jonathan M. Zang complained of retaliation for whistleblower activities from the privately held parent company and subsidiary companies that run the Fidelity family of mutual funds.

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.

The NSA, of course, is still reeling from the high - profile leaks from the spy agency's surveillance program by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie previously estimated that more than 50 million people were compromised by a personality quiz that collected data from users and their friends.

The data firm, which has garnered significant attention in the political world over the past few years for its work for candidates like Cruz and Donald Trump, has come under fire in recent days since a whistleblower named Christopher Wylie detailed how the company exploited Facebook to collect data from unknowing users.

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.

Spying by the National Security Agency is another concern in light of revelations coming from Edward Snowden, the former agency contractor turned whistleblower.

Last month, a whistleblower who previously worked for Cambridge Analytica came forward to claim that the British - based firm had used a third - party app to obtain private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without users» knowledge.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, Cadwalldr noted on Twitter earlier today she'd received a phone call from the aggrieved whistleblower.

According to a cache of documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden published by The Intercept on Monday, the NSA has actually been attempting to track Bitcoin users since 2013.

Earlier this week, a whistleblower claimed that Cambridge Analytica, a London - headquartered political consultancy and data analytics firm, had used data collected from millions of Facebook profiles to gain an understanding of American voter behaviour.

However, The New York Times and The Guardian found that the data was still accessible even in 2017 and that it was only last week, hours before the whistleblower's allegations were made public, that Facebook banned Cambridge and SCL from its platform.

It has also said it's keen to press him on some of his previous answers, as a result of evidence it has heard since — including detailed testimony from CA whistleblower Chris Wylie late last month.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

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.

On April 26, for example, analysts didn't ask Barclays CEO Jes Staley about a fine and stern rebuke (pdf) he received just days earlier from regulators, following his ill - advised attempt to uncover the identity of a whistleblower.

Christopher Wylie, one of the founders of Cambridge Analytica and now a whistleblower who exposed how the data firm harvested data from millions of Facebook users, poses for a portrait Wednesday in a London law firm's office.

Insider trading was the topic of NYHFR's August event, entitled From Trader to Whistleblower: How Tom...

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

The whistleblower provided copies of this data to New York Times and Guardian journalists — who on Friday published numerous tell - all stories from inside the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting operation [1, 2, 3].

A whistleblower captured footage from five voyages of the Awassi Express.

Today's referee is occasional Premier League whistleblower Roger East from Wiltshire.

Report from Zurich Film Festival 1 October: New Film Honors Nestlé Whistleblower Who Exposed Corporate Deception

The whistleblower lawsuit was brought by Jeffrey Mills, executive director of the school system's Office of Food and Nutritional Services from 2010 until he was fired in early 2013.

However, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal today ruled that MPs» communications with whistleblowers and their constituents have no special legal protection from state surveillance under the law, despite those long - held government doctrine apparently prohibiting it.

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».

Companies such as Vodafone have vociferously denied the figures about outstanding tax made by groups like UK Uncut, but the Commons committee used evidence from a whistleblower and a private eye to reach similar conclusions.

As we all know, thanks to whistleblowers like Snowden, and subsequent legal challenges from Liberty and others, our government has been practising — and investing time and vast resources — in mass surveillance methods for years.