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Every screen on the planet : the war over Tik Tok
Emily Baker-White's narrative charts TikTok's rise from obscurity into the world's most valuable startup, led by its ambitious founder, Zhang Yiming--arguably the father of the modern recommendation algorithm. Shang's products reshaped the global internet from a place where you searched for information to one where information came to you. TikTok seemed to know its users in an almost spooky way, provoking wonder and delight. But virtually everything about TikTok's users--their interests, locations, and even their unspoken desires--was accessible to staff in Bejing. After Baker-White, a Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative reporter, revealed that Chinese engineers could access American's private information, a team of employees used the app to track her location and attempt to identify whistleblowers. This incident triggered an ongoing criminal investigation and escalated the US government's fight against Chinese tech. TikTok was the first Chinese app to become a US juggernaut, and lawmakers soon recognized its potential for suveillance and propaganda--and the threat it might pose in the hands of their rivals. Yet even as hawks in Congress gained support to ban the app, the White House was secretly negotiating for unprecedented control over its information stream. In 2025 Donald Trump declined to enforce the so-called ban law, TikTok seeemd to complete a miraculous corporate escape. It retained its influence, profits, and power, but now operated at the pleasure of two strongmen: China's Xi Jinping and Trump himself.
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Reflection: Whistleblowers in nursing: Where are we at?
Whistleblowing, previously rarely discussed in nursing literature, is acknowledged as a practice that can save lives. Defined as \"a current or former employee's reporting of unethical, illegal, or illegitimate wrongdoing in the workplace to parties inside or outside the organisation that may have the power to end the wrongdoing.\"
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The occasional human sacrifice : medical experimentation and the price of saying no
\"Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers. The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well as philosophy. For many years he fought for an external inquiry into a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott's efforts alienated friends and colleagues. The university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state investigation finally vindicated his claims. His experience frames the six stories in this book of medical research in which patients were deceived into participating in experimental programs they did not understand, many of which had astonishing and well-concealed mortality rates. Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on lethal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute, Elliott tells the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Dangerous Boy
Sigurdur Thordarson, otherwise known as Siggi, is the pivotal center in a crazy story of paranoia, intelligence agencies, hacking, abuse, friendship and betrayal, and a heartbreaking coming of age story. Siggi makes his debut as a computer hacker at 12, hacking his school’s website. At 14, Siggi leaks documents to Icelandic media, revealing corruption in the Icelandic bank sector which becomes frontpage news. Siggi gets outed as the source, becoming known as the “teenage whistleblower.” In 2010 Siggi’s newly acquired reputation brings him in contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Siggi becomes an integral part of WikiLeaks, where Assange treats Siggi like his own son. Siggi travels the world leaking classified documents to the media while the US government watches in horror. Eventually he gets on the wrong foot with the more and more manic Assange, who turns on him. At the age of 18 he takes a drastic decision and becomes an FBI informant spying on WikiLeaks. It all comes to a drastic end when in 2014 and 2015 Siggi is sentenced to a total of almost 6 years in prison on various counts of forgery, extortion and sexual acts with minors.
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Corporate governance and whistle blowing in India: promises or reality?
Purpose
The purpose of this paper was to analyze the legal provisions relating to the protection extended to the private company employees who blows the whistle. It is a major requirement of the country that Whistle Blowers Protection Act should not only be made compulsory for public sector but also be made compulsory for private companies of any size so that illegal activities could be identified and major risk could be avoided. Presently, private sector is growing rapidly, and it has a growth in way of economic resources, and private sector is also entering into the public domain by privatization, so exclusion of private sector by the Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2011 is very dangerous.
Design/methodology/approach
The researcher has resorted to primary as well as secondary sources of data. The primary sources of data are the Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2011, Official Secrets Act, 1923, Right to Information Act, 2005, The 179th Law commission report, report of Second Administrative Reforms Commissions, 2007 and recommendations made by Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievance, Law and Justice, 2011. The secondary data are the books and articles of different authors.
Findings
This Act provides a mechanism to receive complaints and inquire into the allegations of corruption or willful misuse of power by the public servants only. Although, this act has not come into existence, but on bare perusal, it seems to be inadequate and still needs more amendments for efficient outcomes or else the zeal of whistle blowers particularly in a private sector will fade away. The need of exhaustive and complete law is also necessary so that the evils like corruption can be curbed completely and effectively.
Originality/value
Private sector, if included in the above-mentioned act, would definitely resolve the problem, but on the same hand, it will raise the question of space that needs to be given to private organization. So in concluding remarks, the author would like to suggest that, to improve the organizational quality of private sector, there should be a national legislation which should deal with substantial guidelines that needs to be adopted by private companies. There is a significant need to raise the standard of corporate governance in India, only then it could achieve stability, transparency and growth.
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Cosmet'eau -Changes in the personal care product consumption practices: from whistle-blowers to impacts on aquatic environments
The Cosmet'eau project (2015-2018) investigates the \" changes in the personal care product (PCP) consumption practices: from whistle-blowers to impacts on aquatic environments. \" In this project, the example of PCPs will be used to understand how public health concerns related to micropollutants can be addressed by public authorities – including local authorities –, industries and consumers. The project aims to characterize the possible changes in PCP consumption practices and to evaluate the impact of their implementation on aquatic contamination. Our goals are to study the whistle-blowers, the risk perception of consumers linked with their practices and the contamination in parabens and their substitutes, triclosan and triclocarban from wastewater to surface water. The project investigates the following potential solutions: modifications of industrial formulation or changes in consumption practices. The final purpose is to provide policy instruments for local authorities aiming at building effective strategies to fight against micropollutants in receiving waters.
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USING THE FALSE CLAIMS ACT TO REMEDY TAX-EXPENDITURE FRAUD
The federal False Claims Act (FCA) may be a tool for combating fraudulent claims regarding tax expenditures. The FCA has been used to protect the public fisc by imposing liability upon anyone who makes a false or fraudulent claim relating to an expenditure of federal funds. A substantial share of government spending is implemented through tax credits and deductions granted to individuals and entities for taking particular actions promoted by the tax code—so-called \"tax expenditures.\" Funds subsidized by such tax expenditures can themselves be the objects of fraud. For example, a taxpayer could be defrauded of retirement funds that the government has indirectly subsidized through tax deductions granted to the defrauded taxpayer. This Article explores how the FCA might be invoked to combat fraud that targets the recipients of tax expenditures, as well as doctrinal counterarguments to such an application. We touch on the potential breadth of the FCA's reach insofar as it encompasses such claims, as well as the prospect of using other whistleblower mechanisms to achieve similar results.
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fall and rise of the wetlands of California's Great Central Valley
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many demands that have been made on the Valley’s natural resources, especially by large-scale agriculture, and traces the unforeseen ecological consequences of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He also investigates changing public and scientific attitudes that are now ushering in an era of unprecedented protection for wildlife and wetlands in California and the nation.
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Citizenship, Organizational Citizenship, and the Laws of Overlapping Obligations
In his classic work, 'Exit, Voice, and Loyalty', Albert Hirschman asserted that \"[a]s a rule... loyalty holds exit at bay and activates voice.\" In 2006, however, the United States Supreme Court refused to extend constitutional protections to that activated voice. In a decision decried as the \"worst whistleblower decision\" in five decades, the United States Supreme Court held that \"when public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, the employees are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes.\" In the 5-4 decision, the Court held in 'Garcetti v. Ceballos' that, even when the speech concerns the illegality of organizational action, it is not protected when the employee communicates the illegality within his or her organization, as opposed to stepping outside the boundaries of the workplace. 'Garcetti' exemplifies a distorted meeting of citizenship and organizational citizenship, driving a wedge between actions of the individual as a citizen and as an employee.
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