Whistleblower

Today, the technological innovation of drones has become an increasingly controversial topic. In the war against ISIS, and terrorist targets in Syria, drone attacks have replaced on the ground combat as the primary fighting mechanism of The United States Military. Evidence presented for and against aspectual U.S. drone attacks on ISIS and Syria are both valid and compelling, but the evidence against U.S. drone attacks resonates more clearly with a humanitarian outlook, as drone attacks against…

of his staff were placed to blame. None of them ended up behind bars, instead they all resigned and deeply apologized for their actions. Since the case has just recently been closed, the perpetrators have not been able to find new careers. The whistleblower in this case was the prior prosecutors that Toshiba hired to investigate their financials. They determined that the profits of Toshiba were overstated by over 1.2 billion dollars. Toshiba was required to restate their financials and pay hefty…

The positive side of the Dark Web ' is really quite huge, if looked at from a journalist prospective. It goes beyond just journalists and whistleblowers, and potentially to every person in the world, that wants to connect to some other person or device and share information without the fact that these two people are connecting or sharing information [being] monitored, logged, indexed or intercepted…

The benefactors of the world’s next generation are sitting behind computer screens. Ready to create change worldwide, they are the activists of a new age; an age where technology is king among other platforms of information. Indifferent and disillusioned by careless claims made in the media, internet activist are revolutionizing the world through internet hacking. Internet activist known as Hacktivists, work to target injustice in politics and corrupt societal ideals. The world’s posterity…

Most of the people would agree that Alex should not vote in favor of continuing to make the payments to the United Peoples Liberation Front. Rule utilitarianism suggests that some classes of actions, like making payments to terrorist organization, are obviously wrong regardless of their consequences as they have negative effect on the general happiness of the society as a whole (Brooks, 137). Therefore, a rule utilitarian would not favor the payments as following the rule, not supporting…

Despite the challenges created by the rise of globalization and an interconnected 21st century society, the positive impact of peaceful resistance remains. A prime example of this dilemma would be Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower. Upon leaking information about the NSA’s internal proceedings, Americans discovered the immense scope of the government’s spying and data collection of its own citizens (John Cassidy, 2013). Almost immediately, a variety of critics dubbed Snowden…

In particular, the United States Department of Labor has what is called the whistleblower program. This program encourages workers to report unsafe working environments by protecting them from workplace discrimination as a result of their report. It is possible that company employees are unaware of their ability to report an unsafe…

Crestview and will be an independent entity. This committee will oversee the responses to public requests, record postings, and any other activity related to promote open government and freedom of information. This Committee will also serve as the Whistleblower within the City government to avoid any further violation of the Sunshine Law. Whistleblowing: Although bureaucratic lore commonly holds that uncovering unlawful waste, fraud, or abuse will result in chilling isolation, impossible job…

WHISTLE-BLOWERS The False Claims Act, is a federal law that imposes liability on companies and persons that commit fraud against the government. The federal government can recover up to three times the damages the government has sustained and the whistleblowers who report corporate wrongdoing can be awarded 15 to 30 percent of whatever damages the federal government recovers. The advantage of paying whistle-blowers, it will provide financial support for the employee who might lose his job or…

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was put into place in 2002 by Congress after being developed by Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael Oxley. The purpose of SOX is to “protect shareholders and other stakeholders of publicly traded companies” (Vanderbeck, 2013, p. 11). SOX became about because although The United States already had the Securities Act of 1933 it only held the corporations responsible, therefore, the CEO’s did not have to legally tell the truth making it hard hold them…