Tag: Why Whistleblow at All

Creating Tangible Change

In recent years, whistleblowing in the tech space has led to concrete change. Here are several noteworthy examples. Calls from shareholders for corporate whistleblower protections  Following Timnit Gebru’s firing, shareholders of Google’s parent company Alphabet filed a resolution asking its board to oversee a review of corporate whistleblower policies and their effectiveness in protecting employees. […]

The Goliath Syndrome

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls […]

Reasons to Whistleblow

There is no universal formula for when and why an employee speaks out to the media. Workers sometimes turn to the press after attempts at raising serious concerns with management fall on deaf ears. Or, they may recognize that the only way they can create meaningful change is to risk their reputation for the sake […]

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— Ifeoma Ozoma, Founder of Earthseed, Creator of the Tech Worker Handbook