Today, the government released a review into Australia’s patchwork of a secrecy law system. The proposed changes are a step in the right direction, but there’s so much more work to do.
Whistleblower Athol Williams, a former partner at Bain SA, testifies at the State Capture Commission in 2021.
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Compliance officers, professionals that handle whistleblowing reports, often find themselves caught between two parties with divergent interests — whistleblowers and company management.
Recent developments in Australian whistleblowing cases have shown how critical it is to reform our laws - which are far from world standard.
A new study has found that a healthy and ethical company culture plays a more important role in preventing fraud than its board of directors does.
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Contrary to popular belief, boards of directors are not the ones who establish whistleblowing procedures. Instead, boards depend on their management teams to implement them.
People wait in line outside their voting station in the popular neighbourhood of Ngor in Dakar on July 31, 2022.
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Police checkpoints liberally dot Kenya’s highways, but they’re not just about keeping road users safe.
Organizations have significantly increased their use of data and the internet because of the pandemic, leading to new cyberattack and cybersecurity risks.
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Camélia Radu, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Nadia Smaili, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
An integrative cybersecurity and data protection program will help firms adjust their management protocols and be better prepared for future cybersecurity trends.
At first glance, these programs might seem attractive. But they suffer from fundamental flaws.
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There is a growing trend to import another Americanism into the Canadian anti-money laundering strategy: a whistleblower incentive program that would amount to bounty hunting for violations.
Friends no longer: US president Donald Trump with his then national security adviser John Bolton in 2018.
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Psychologists have identified the characteristics of ‘moral rebels’ who make the tough choice to stand up for their principles in the face of negative consequences.
The old joke says you can tell a politician is lying if his lips are moving.
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When a person or agency backed by the power and resources of the government tells a lie, it sometimes causes harm that only the government can inflict.
The whistleblower: in Trump’s sights.
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A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.