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Tripp is the former Gigafactory technician who, after a brief stint at the Nevada facility in 2018, went to the press as a whistleblower with claims that defective battery packs in Tesla's Model 3 line of cars had become so much of a problem that Tesla was unable to meet the production target set by boss Elon Musk - 5,000 flash motors a week. Tripp countersued Tesla claiming defamation and false light.
Denmark's top foreign intelligence chief has been suspended for spying on Danish citizens illegally for up to six years after a whistleblower released a trove of documents to government regulators. In a press release yesterday, the independent regulator of the Danish security services said it had received information from a whistleblower in November that revealed the country's foreign intelligence service "Had withheld key and crucial information," and given "Incorrect information on matters relating to the collection of the service and disclosure of information."
Facebook and other tech companies need to be regulated like the tobacco industry, warned Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The data scientist revealed how he helped the disgraced company, founded by Donald Trump's former right-hand man Steve Bannon, to use unauthorised personal data harvested from Facebook to help swing a string of elections, including Trump's US presidential win in 2016.
Report: Blue Cross and Blue Shield Minnesota Had Thousands of Old 'Critical' VulnerabilitiesBlue Cross and Blue Shield Minnesota is reportedly racing to address tens of thousands of security...
Everett Stern on How HSBC Scandal Fuels His New MissionIn the wake of the HSBC money-laundering scandal, whistleblower Everett Stern founded the intelligence firm Tactical Rabbit. He explains the...
Settlement Stems From Flaws in Video Surveillance Software Sold to Government AgenciesCisco has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that claimed the networking company...
Everett Stern Reflects on Fallout From Money Laundering CaseHSBC paid a record $1.92 billion fine for money laundering violations in 2012. But no one ever went to jail for the crimes....
Interesting essay arguing that we need better legislation to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers. Congress should act to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers because information security has...
"If You See Something, Say Something' Applies to Banks, Money LaunderingIt's been nearly seven years since HSBC was fined $1.9 billion by U.S. authorities for money laundering violations involving...
If black is the new orange, she's back in black After seven days of freedom, US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is back behind bars for refusing to testify before a secret federal grand jury...