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Who is a Whistleblower?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A
whistleblower is an
employee, former employee, or member of an
organization who reports misconduct to people or entities that
have the power to take corrective action. Generally
the misconduct is a violation of
law, rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to
public interest --
fraud, health, safety violations, and
corruption are just a few examples. For instance,
Jeffrey Wigand is a well-known whistleblower in the
United States for his role in the
Big Tobacco
scandal, revealing that executives of the companies
knew that
cigarettes were addictive and that they added other
carcinogenic ingredients to the cigarettes.
Whistleblowers are most often employees of
businesses, but are also commonly employees of
government agencies.
Whistleblowing:
An
act of dissent (loosely speaking); -- an open disclosure
about significant wrongdoing made by a concerned citizen totally
or predominantly motivated by notions of public interest, who
has perceived the wrongdoing in a particular role and initiates
the disclosure of her or his own free will, to a person or
agency capable of investigating the complaint and facilitating
the correction of wrongdoing (this strict definition was
developed by William De Maria) . . . "Whistleblower: a person
who engages in whistleblowing or, in other words, blows the
whistle on wrongdoing; a dissenter from wrongdoing"
 
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