Whistleblower

The largest-ever award in the SEC’s cash-for-tips program was related to a bribery case against the telecommunications company. The largest-ever award in the SEC’s cash-for-tips program was related to a bribery case against the telecommunications company. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful…

The securities market regulator announced the award but didn’t name the case it is connected to or identify the tipster, in keeping with its policy of not divulging this information to the public. The securities market regulator announced the award but didn’t name the case it is connected to or identify the tipster, in keeping with its policy of not divulging this information to the public. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator…

Anthony Soderberg was wounded, no longer armed and positioned precariously on a steep embankment when Los Angeles Police Lt. Ruben Lopez radioed to the surrounding SWAT team that the mentally ill man they’d just flushed from a nearby home remained a threat and must not be allowed to leave.SWAT Sgt. Tim Colomey, a crisis negotiator standing next to Lopez in the command center, was stunned — interpreting the remark, as he knew other officers would, as a kill order.“What the f— did you just say?” Colomey asked Lopez, just…

The creator of the wildly popular artificial intelligence service ChatGPT is facing the threat of a landmark defamation claim in Australia after one of its systems falsely described a whistleblower in a bribery scandal as being one of its perpetrators.Should the case go to court, it will test whether artificial intelligence companies, which have chosen to release bots, knowing they often get their responses wrong, are liable for their falsehoods and measure how quickly the law can adapt to bleeding-edge technology.Brian…

Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images)A former TikTok employee turned whistleblower has reportedly met with multiple U.S. senators expressing concerns TikTok’s plan to secure U.S. user data won’t go far enough to stop possible Chinese espionage. The whistleblower told The Washington Post in an interview that the company’s policy plan, dubbed Project Texas, doesn’t go far enough and that properly ensuring U.S. data is secured from Chinese employees requires nothing short of a “complete re-engineering” of the way the app…

TikTok's efforts to address US data privacy fears may have holes. A self-proclaimed whistleblower talking to The Washington Post says the social network's plan to protect American users' data, Project Texas, has major flaws. The former Trust and Safety team member claims the $1.5 billion initiative will still let TikTok connect to parent company ByteDance's Toutiao, a well-known Chinese news app. That link could theoretically allow China to access US data. A truly secure approach would require a "complete re-engineering"…

Photo: Getty/GizmodoOn Thursday, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen spoke to a national organization that convenes investors, telling them that Meta was an unwise place to put their money, specifically the version of Meta under the direction of Mark Zuckerberg.“It adds systemic risks to portfolios, particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia,” she said. She called calling Meta’s refusal to disclose information about the problems it creates a smokescreen keeping investors from judging if the company would be a sound…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The nation's leading financial regulator is facing a transparency crisis of its own. According to a new study by a University of Kansas law professor, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is becoming increasingly secretive regarding some of its own activities—even as it is increasingly aggressive in demanding disclosures from private actors. …

Image: Sergei Elagin (Shutterstock)Activision Blizzard Inc. has agreed to pay out a $35 million settlement for allegations that it violated workers’ rights by failing to maintain “adequate” workplace harassment protocols and violated federal whistleblower protection rights, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said in a press release on Friday.The SEC found between 2016 and 2021 that Activision Blizzard, a game development and publishing company, had required former employees who received an information request…

The Inflation Reduction Act will drive electrification of transportation forward but won’t be enough to meet the United States’ climate goals under the Paris Agreement, according to a new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation. The ICCT is best known as the research group that broke the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal. We recently covered another of its reports showing that plug-in hybrids use more gas than previously thought. Its new report analyzes the effects that the…