Whistle-Blowing

‘Millions of People’s Data is at Risk’ — Amazon Insiders Sound Alarm Over Security

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Author: Vincent Manancourt; Publisher: Politico; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how last year, one European Union employee and 2 U.S. employees acted as whistleblowers on Amazon’s mishandling of customer data. For example, the data storage is so convoluted that it would be nearly impossible to enact “the right to be forgotten,” a right that people have the right to have their data completely…

Twitter Whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko Testifies to Congress

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Author: Shannon Bond, Raquel Maria Dillon; Publisher: National Public Radio; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses a recent Senate hearing in which Peiter Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, testified before Congress, bringing up Twitter’s cybersecurity failures and lack of ethical leadership. Zatko accused Twitter of “practicing lax security, neglecting user privacy, [and being] plagued by widespread security issues.” The…

The Great Hack on Netflix: Ethics of Data Use

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Author: Dan Wardrope; Publisher: Flexxable; Publication Year: N/A. The following article reviews people’s reactions to The Great Hack on Netflix. The Great Hack exposes the wrong-doing of mass data exploitation during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In early 2018, it was learned that the analytics giant, Cambridge Analytica, collected millions of people’s data from Facebook accounts without their consent. They then…