Whistleblowing is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed wrongful – whether it be illegal, immoral, il
Czech whistleblower Libor Michálek was fired from his position after exposing high-level corruption.
Chelsea Manning was charged with 22 offenses, including aiding the enemy, after leaking classified documents surrounding the United States' military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mordechai Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 in solitary confinement.
Silas Soule, a 19th century whistleblower of the Sand Creek massacre of Native Americans in 1864. Soule was murdered in what some believed was retaliation.
Edward Joseph Snowden is an American whistleblower who, as a National Security Agency intelligence contractor, disclosed classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
Whistleblowing
…important to recognize that in any relationship which demands loyalty the relationship works both ways and involves mutual enrichment. The ethics of Edward Snowden's actions have been widely discussed and debated in news media and academia worldwide. Snowden released classified intelligence to the American people…
Slide from an NSA presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation" from its MUSCULAR program; the sketch shows where the "Public Internet" meets the internal "Google Cloud" where user data resides.
PRISM: a clandestine surveillance program under which the NSA collects user data from companies including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and YouTube
Hong Kong rally to support Snowden, June 15, 2013