...Whistleblowing and the global impact. Table of Contents ESSAY Introduction The importance and understanding of whistleblowing The notion of whistleblowing Whistleblowing – an act of good will Whistleblowing – an act of revenge The role of the government Government whistleblowing How Snowden formed society Introduction Whistleblowing, an act of certain controversy, has provided material for many a discussion. It has filled our newspapers, televisions and radios on a daily basis, since Wikileaks went public with its first act of exposing illegal activity. ‘Whistleblowing’ is a dynamic process involving at least three social actors; the wrongdoer, the whistleblower and the recipient, each of whom takes actions in response to the other’ (Near et al., p 509, 1996), while accepting the associated dangers and risks. Current events relating to Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning have sparked intense debate throughout the world regarding policy changes, creation of new laws and the conduct of government and corporations. It is widely agreed that whistleblowing exists and happens on a daily basis. Scholars have examined the topic over the years narrowing it down to ethnical divergences or even to how the act of wrongdoing can impact a whistleblower. The importance and understanding of whistleblowing Age has a significant impact...
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...principle. It poses a substantial threat to the social contract and is illegal both domestically and globally. Edward Snowden’s revelations about these activities were done so in the public interest and set him apart from many other Americans charged with espionage by the U.S. government- he is a whistleblower. For this reason, in the eyes of the international community he has committed a non-violent political crime (under the assumption that he has committed a crime). Because of this and other reasons, granting Snowden political asylum is absolutely within Russia’s rights. One can witness a large effort on behalf of the US government, from the latter half of the 20th century...
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...And, how often is a warrant issued to the person who's phone is being listened too? In an article published by the International Business Times by Jeff Stone he mentions that tower dump orders have been a debate among judges, phone companies and police investigators on whether this violates our rights of the fourth amendment. Clearly authorities understand they are invading privacy to some extent. Their argument is that what they're doing is legal due to warrants issued by a judge. However, cell phones are personally owned devices that often contain personal information that should require warrants to be issued to the owner of every individual device from which information is being obtained. Organizations have formed to fight the invasion of authorities to our private information. Some Organizations include the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Alan Butler, a privacy advocate in EPIC argued, "I don't think that these devices should never be used, but at the same time, you should clearly be getting a warrant." (Kelly) Ultimately it's evident that people feel this is a clear invasion of privacy, and a violation of our fourth amendment right supporting the idea that tower dumping is illegal....
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...behind of our personal information. Everyone can track us when users post pictures, click a hyperlink, send emails, turn on locations, and it gives companies the opportunity to public access and the ability to store it. Companies and the government collect information in ways that might could threaten our freedoms, because when corporations acquire our information they sell it back to the highest bidder, while the government introduces laws that allows them to monitor us like never before. It affects our freedom of speech, undermines a free media, and threatens the free exercise of religion. On the other hand, technology can also be implemented to limit corporations from collecting personal information and implements ways to protect our civil liberties. The different types of private information include private communication, privacy of the body, personal information, and information about one’s possession. Private...
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...abortion, marijuana or LGBT rights. Now this is inevitable in any country or really in any time frame. The fact is, civil disobediance is not only positive in a free society, but neccessary. In addition, the idea of restricting civil disobedience is near to fascism. The ideology that the people not be allowed to peacefully protest or disobey certain sets of rules put in place is too restrictive in a country claiming to be the land of the free. We the people did not sign up to live in a country that gets to choose what our opinions look like to the rest of the world....
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...Civil disobedience is referred to as “the act of opposing a law one considers unjust and peacefully disobeying it while accepting the consequences”. It’s a pretty touchy subject because you have to keep in mind WHAT they are opposing; but it’s all opinion. You might think ___ is unfair, but that doesn’t mean everyone globally thinks it’s unfair. It’s a touchy subject because there is no unanimous, decisive, global thoughts or feelings on everything. When someone asks for an example of “civil disobedience”, what comes to mind? For many, Dr. Martin Luther Kings “Letter from Birmingham Jail” comes to mind; where a peaceful demonstration against segregation and racial terror throws one of the most influential civil rights leaders in jail. The...
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...NSA Eavesdropping and Data Mining Table of Contents Abstract..........................................................................................................3 Introduction....................................................................................................4 Literature Review............................................................................................6 Discussion.......................................................................................................13 Conclusion......................................................................................................15 References.......................................................................................................17 Abstract Technology is constantly around us and from this point forward it is never going away not that most of us can remember a time without cell phones but for some of us we can still recall a time when it didn’t exist. Eavesdropping has been a complex endeavor and has been evolving over the years from placing a listening device which had a built in microphone and a short distance transmitter. Now it is complex algorithms that can when completely decrypted give a person or an organization complete information on a person and allow them access into a private life. I say private life when in all actuality we seem to be more responsive to sharing everything with everyone in fact it is a lack of anonymity and of a global pandemic...
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...The primary reason relies on the differences in their polical norms and the size between the two nations (Masse, 2003). The UK is governed through a unitary parliamentary in contrast to the U.S government’s legislative system, in which the UK’s powers reside in the Cabinet, which is run by the Prime Minister, who is the leader of the House of Common majority party, which allows him to faces less executive level decision constraints compared to the U.S president who must gain approval from Congress on policies. More important is the fact that the United States has a written constitution that protects individual’s rights of its people, while the UK does not. Thus when creating counterintelligence policies, the U.S must abide by more laws and regulations. The UK does not have follow such strict rules, they can deny news agencies from reporting certain actions which might expose or damage national security, which goes directly against the U.S first amendment...
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...What is the current outlook for French government? Will this outlook strengthen or weaken French national identity? 2) What problems has unification caused Germany? Given the current struggle to unite East and West, what must happen to keep Germany the vibrant democracy it is today? 3) In Japan, much has changed in the post-war period, especially in regard to the role of women in the workplace. What has changed for women during this time? How and why are these changes positive or negative? What will be the larger impact of these changes? 4) With Russia’s recent invasion of Georgia, Putin’s reputation comes under question. Though he has made great strides to move Russia firmly from Communism to capitalism, what struggles will future leaders face given Russia’s new reputation? I believe the current outlook for the French government is reserved. Their economy has been stagnant, but is beginning to show signs of modest growth. The French people have generally shown reluctance or resistance to bold reforms, so the government is cautious and perhaps even slow to make the changes needed to advance France as a global competitor and strong member of the European Union. In many ways, it is a time of uncertainty in France and I believe this also makes it impossible to predict the future of the French national identity, especially as their identity is tied to the national debate over universalism and multiculturalism. With almost half of French people viewing Muslims as a threat...
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...the past leads civilians feeble to the oppression of their government. They are governed by a potentially fictional dictator, whom they address as “Big Brother.” The citizens fear him and adore him. Although, Orwell’s predictions for modern culture after World War Two may seem drastic and extreme, it has been evident that the inhabitants of our world currently mimic the ignorance of the party members in Orwell’s vision. In the patriotic nation of the United States of America, the rights and freedoms of their citizens are disregarded in ways that are undetected by majority of the population. If we are consistently warned about our future by thinkers such as George Orwell, how do governments remain in power and sustain this cycle? Presently, the American government Asube 2 exploits its citizens for the sake of power; and they do this in much the same way Orwell envisioned, through the invasion of privacy and the perpetuation of war hysteria. Governments control people by restricting their rights and freedoms....
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...Administration passed the Patriotic Act that enabled FBI to demand the sharing of “any tangible things sought relevant to an authorized investigation” (Barnett 4), including strictly domestic records. Also, three days after the terrorist attacks, the Congress passed AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) Act that was a necessity, but it was wrongly used by the Bush Administration as the reason of permission for the massive spying program. Because of the secrecy of these surveillance transmissions, the American public had no idea of the existence of these types of programs until the summer of 2013 when Edward Snowden, a NSA contractor, leaked classified information to The Guardian newspaper. The film called Citizenfour produced by Laura Poitras in 2014 exposed on camera the truths about the danger of mass wiretapping program in our present society by interviewing Snowden. There are many defenders of the NSA program that highlight its...
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...seven years the N.S.A was taking information from our phone calls. This all started while Bush was president through a program called prism. Prism would let the F.B.I. and N.S.A. into many social media websites and was able to access all of our information. These people were trying to spot out terrorists, and will go to any means necessary. According to Obama, they necessarily can’t hear the conversations; they are just able to learn about who we call. They also are saying that they don’t collect the information, which doesn’t add up. This show how desperate the country has been since 9/11 has happened. It’s almost as if they are trying to do anything to find what’s not there. 3. 6/9/2013 Mark Mazzetti and Michael S. Schmidt * Edward Snowden who is a former CIA computer technician, opened up and answered questions about the CIA and the doings of it. He had answered...
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...between US and non-US persons justified? 1. Since the release of NSA’s classified documents by the NSA ex-contractor Edward Snowden, the controversy of morality and legitimacy of FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), and, in particular, section 702, has become a major issue of public debate in the context of national security and privacy rights. To understand the underlying controversy, it is important to understand what powers section 702 gives to the US intelligence agencies. Section 702 of the Federal Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA) is the section that elaborates on the procedures and regulations for surveillance of non-United States persons while they are located outside the US. It...
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...ideology. It will try to unravel Julian Assange’s personal trait and the role he has been playing for years within and beyond this organization. In the main and the most important section dedicated to Cablegate, the reader will find out the secrets about the political system in Russia, who is the real leader of that superpower county and what relationship is there between government and organized crime. It will also be revealed why Google was forced to withdraw from Chinese market and how many users it potentially lost. Circumstances of the cables disclosure will be discussed in separate paragraphs. And finally, definitions such as The Freedom of Informational Act and Protected disclosure Bill will be explained. Wikileaks and Julian Assange Wikileaks is a non-profit media organization whose purpose is to deliver crucial material and documentation to the people (Wikileaks, 2011). Their sources can dispatch information in innovative, secure and anonymous way via a high security anonymous drop box protected by cryptographic information technologies (Wikileaks, 2011). The principles of their work are to protect the freedom of speech and media publishing, and to defend the rights of society, which...
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...Summary of post war coalition 1918-1922 The problems of post war reconciliation * Demobilisation * Health facilities * Unemployment * National insurance& pensions * Housing * Set against grim economic circumstances – high inflation and falling demand in British goods. The Anglo Irish question * Legacy of the Easter rising 1916 * IRA VS The Black and Tans * The Anglo Irish treaty * Treaty was major achievement, but essentially a compromise. * Mutual bitterness remained between LG and IRA. * Civil war in the New Ireland. * End of the 1918-22 coalition * It fell because 1) Policy failures – economic (Geddes axe) ,social, foreign affairs, 2) LG corruption ( using power of patronage to sell honours on a commission basis) 3) Conservative had labour doubts. 4) The coalitions decline in reputation. 5) Foreign affairs (chanak) 6) Conservative abandoned LG – (Carlton club meeting, Baldwin described LG as a dynamic force. Summary of the conservative government 1922-24 * A government burdened by debt. * Chamberling’s housing act (1923) was the only major measure * Baldwin fought elections on the protection ticket * 1923 election left labour as the larger opposition party. 1) Decline in liberals. * Split between Asquith and LG during war created a breach within the labour party – never properly healed. * Liberal values such as freedom of individual, been compromised by restrictive Gov. measures...
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