A former Oracle employee filed a lawsuit against the database giant on Tuesday claiming that he was forced out for refusing to lie about the functionality of the company’s software. The civil complaint, filed on behalf of plaintiff Tayo Daramola in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, contends that Oracle violated whistleblower protections under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Act,…
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Walmart Dodged US Tax on $2 Billion by Routing Cash Through Multiple Countries, Whistleblower Says
Walmart, the world’s biggest retail company, underpaid US taxes on nearly $2 billion worth of offshore cash, according to whistleblower documents filed by a former Walmart executive to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2011, and recently obtained by Quartz. From the report: The firm avoided nearly $200 million in taxes on that money and “dramatically” overstated its foreign tax credits…
Boeing Whistleblower Raises Doubts Over 787 Oxygen System
A Boeing whistleblower has claimed that passengers on its 787 Dreamliner could be left without oxygen if the cabin were to suffer a sudden decompression. The BBC reports: John Barnett says tests suggest up to a quarter of the oxygen systems could be faulty and might not work when needed. He also claimed faulty parts were deliberately fitted to planes on…
Snowden searched CIA’s files for proof of aliens
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed what he found when he searched the CIA for evidence of alien life. If you had access to some of the nation’s… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331499/snowden-searched-cias-files-for-proof-of-aliens…
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: US Heading In ‘Same Direction As China’ With Online Privacy
“The United States is walking in the same direction as China, we’re just allowing private companies to monetize left, right and center,” Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie told CNBC on Wednesday. “Just because it’s not the state doesn’t mean that there isn’t harmful impacts that could come if you have one or two large companies monitoring or tracking everything you do,”…
Boeing Rejected 737 MAX Safety Upgrades Before Fatal Crashes, Whistleblower Says
The Seattle Times: Seven weeks after the second fatal crash of a 737 MAX in March, a Boeing engineer submitted a scathing internal ethics complaint alleging that management — determined to keep down costs for airline customers — had blocked significant safety improvements during the jet’s development. The ethics charge, filed by 33-year-old engineer Curtis Ewbank, whose job involved studying past…
Edward Snowden Wants To Come Home: ‘I’m Not Asking For a Pass. What I’m Asking For is a Fair Trial’
Edward Snowden, who has been living in exile in Russia after leaking American intelligence secrets in 2013 and was sued by the U.S. government over his new book this week, says that he would like to return to the United States if he is guaranteed a fair trial. He said: I would like to return to the United States. That is…
It Was Sensitive Data From a US Anti-Terror Program — and Terrorists Could Have Gotten To It For Years, Records Show
The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from the nation’s bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website where it was vulnerable to attacks by hackers for over a decade, according to government documents reviewed by The Times. From a report: The data included the locations of at least some BioWatch air samplers, which are installed at subway stations and other…