#Whistleblowing

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The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD

On June 20, I'm keynoting the LOCUS AWARDS in OAKLAND.

Let's take a sec here and notice something genuinely great happening in the US government: the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's stunning, unbroken streak of major, muscular victories over the forces of corporate corruption, with the backing of the Supreme Court (yes, that Supreme Court), and which is only speeding up!

A little background. The CFPB was created in 2010. It was Elizabeth Warren's brainchild, an institution that was supposed to regulate finance from the perspective of the American public, not the American finance sector. Rather than fighting to "stabilize" the financial sector (the mission that led to Obama taking his advisor Timothy Geithner's advice to permit the foreclosure crisis to continue in order to "foam the runways" for the banks), the Bureau would fight to defend us from bankers.

The CFPB got off to a rocky start, with challenges to the unique system of long-term leadership appointments meant to depoliticize the office, as well as the sudden resignation of its inaugural boss, who broke his promise to see his term through in order to launch an unsuccessful bid for political office.

But after the 2020 election, the Bureau came into its own, when Biden poached Rohit Chopra from the FTC and put him in charge. Chopra went on a tear, taking on landlords who violated the covid eviction moratorium:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cfpb

Then banning payday lenders' scummiest tactics:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/29/planned-obsolescence/#academic-fraud

Then striking at one of fintech's most predatory grifts, the "earned wage access" hustle:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usury/#tech-exceptionalism

Then closing the loophole that let credit reporting bureaus (like Equifax, who doxed every single American in a spectacular 2019 breach) avoid regulation by creating data brokerage divisions and claiming they weren't part of the regulated activity of credit reporting:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

Chopra went on to promise to ban data-brokers altogether:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/13/goulash/#material-misstatement

Then he banned comparison shopping sites where you go to find the best bank accounts and credit cards from accepting bribes and putting more expensive options at the top of the list. Instead, he's requiring banks to send the CFPB regular, accurate lists of all their charges, and standing up a federal operated comparison shopping site that gives only accurate and honest rankings. Finally, he's made an interoperability rule requiring banks to let you transfer to another institution with one click, just like you change phone carriers. That means you can search an honest site to find the best deal on your banking, and then, with a single click, transfer your accounts, your account history, your payees, and all your other banking data to that new bank:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

Somewhere in there, big business got scared. They cooked up a legal theory declaring the CFPB's funding mechanism to be unconstitutional and got the case fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, in a bid to put Chopra and the CFPB permanently out of business. Instead, the Supremes – these Supremes! – upheld the CFPB's funding mechanism in a 7-2 ruling:

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/05/supreme-court-lets-cfpb-funding-stand/

That ruling was a starter pistol for Chopra and the Bureau. Maybe it seemed like they were taking big swings before, but it turns out all that was just a warmup. Last week on The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner rounded up all the stuff the Bureau is kicking off:

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-06-07-window-on-corporate-deceptions/

First: regulating Buy Now, Pay Later companies (think: Klarna) as credit-card companies, with all the requirements for disclosure and interest rate caps dictated by the Truth In Lending Act:

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2024/06/cfpb-applies-credit-card-rules

Next: creating a registry of habitual corporate criminals. This rogues gallery will make it harder for other agencies – like the DOJ – and state Attorneys General to offer bullshit "delayed prosecution agreements" to companies that compulsively rip us off:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-creates-registry-to-detect-corporate-repeat-offenders/

Then there's the rule against "fine print deception" – which is when the fine print in a contract lies to you about your rights, like when a mortgage lender forces you waive a right you can't actually waive, or car lenders that make you waive your bankruptcy rights, which, again, you can't waive:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-warns-against-deception-in-contract-fine-print/

As Kuttner writes, the common thread running through all these orders is that they ban deceptive practices – they make it illegal for companies to steal from us by lying to us. Especially in these dying days of class action suits – rapidly becoming obsolete thanks to "mandatory arbitration waivers" that make you sign away your right to join a class action – agencies like the CFPB are our only hope of punishing companies that lie to us to steal from us.

There's a lot of bad stuff going on in the world right now, and much of it – including an active genocide – is coming from the Biden White House.

But there are people in the Biden Administration who care about the American people and who are effective and committed fighters who have our back. What's more, they're winning. That doesn't make all the bad news go away, but sometimes it feels good to take a moment and take the W.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/#deliverism

[alwaysbewoke]

AGAIN?!?!?

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Morgan Stephens at Daily Kos:

With watchdogs purged and the GOP obediently falling in line with Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda during his first three weeks in office, Senate Democrats are turning to a different strategy: whistleblowers. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters launched a new online portal Monday for individuals to report wrongdoing, abuses of power, and threats to public safety.  Trump and his co-President Elon Musk’s bold and illegal plays for power inspired the move, according to the Democratic senators. “In the first three weeks of his administration, President Trump has shown a blatant disregard for the rule of law and a callousness for the American people,” said Schumer and Peters in a joint statement. “From the DOGE takeover of the Treasury Department to the federal funding freeze, this Administration has wreaked havoc on programs that American families, seniors, students, veterans, and others have come to depend upon.” The senators also included a letter written to future whistleblowers and a list of resources, including a legal overview of the Whistleblowers Protection Act, the Office of the Whistleblowers Ombuds, and the National Whistleblower Center.  The straightforward website gives whistleblowers one page to fill out. The form includes multiple options for the “nature of [the] complaint,” including “retaliation,” “wasteful spending,” “fraud,” “criminal activity,” or “other.”  The Democratic lawmakers also vowed to hold hearings and inquiries should any submitted complaints warrant them.

[...] According to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, this is part of a “three-pronged counteroffensive” strategy Democrats have laid out in the past month when describing how they’ll push back against the Trump administration. The plan, Jeffries says, includes “appropriations,” “litigation,” and “communications.” In a swift response to Trump’s chaotic federal funding freeze, Jeffries also proposed a 10-point plan detailing how Democrats will protect Americans’ social security privacy, defend Medicare and other essential government programs, and highlight how Republicans are raising the cost of living. This comes as Trump and Musk have been gutting government watchdogs while shaping the federal government to their corrupt liking. 

Senate Democrats launch a whistleblower website to report Trumpian wrongdoing, abuses of power, and threats to public safety.

[salembehindbars]

My curious mind with uninterrupted streams of thinking wants to pull a Nellie Bly, but instead of infiltrating and investigating an asylum I want to infiltrate and investigate the local culty church.

[keanu-55]

Another incident of sacrificing family for justice has occurred. On July 14th, Mr. Wang, with a heavy and resolute heart, reported to the police that his son was addicted to pornographic websites at home and even recharged for membership. This distressing incident immediately attracted the high attention of the police.

The police officers promptly launched an in-depth investigation. Through meticulous and rigorous verification, the astonishing truth emerged. This website astonishingly harbored as many as over 26,000 pornographic videos. The scale and the vile nature of the content were outrageous.

The police struck with thunderbolt force and successfully arrested the organizer, Fan, and 10 gang members. This criminal gang, through operating such illegal websites, illegally earned an astonishing 60 million yuan in just half a year. Their sinful deeds not only violated the law and morality but also caused great harm to social customs and the physical and mental health of teenagers.

Ultimately, the law demonstrated the power of justice. Later, Fan and the other 10 individuals were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 1 year to 10 years and were each fined. This judgment was not only a severe punishment for their criminal acts but also sent a strong signal to society that such illegal and criminal activities will be resolutely cracked down on.

The current existence of bad websites and live broadcasts is truly something to be avoided at all costs.

In today's highly informationalized online world, such bad content emerges in an endless stream like poisonous weeds. They penetrate people's lives in various covert and tempting ways, bringing great harm to society. These bad contents erode people's minds and cause serious distortions in the formation of values and worldviews, especially for teenagers.

Especially in the field of live broadcasts, due to their characteristics of instantaneity and interactivity, the spread of bad information is even more difficult to control. Some bad anchors, in pursuit of traffic and profits, unscrupulously spread harmful information such as vulgarity, violence, and fraud, seriously disrupting the online order and undermining social public order and good customs.

However, the power of technology always brings new hope for solving problems.

Knownsec's ScanA, with its advanced algorithms and intelligent monitoring system, is like a sharp sword that cuts off the chain of bad information dissemination. It is capable of real-time detection and analysis of live broadcast content, leaving no minute corner unchecked. Whether it is implicit hints or blatant bad information, ScanA can quickly capture it with its keen insight and issue alerts in a timely manner.

This powerful technological tool provides strong support for maintaining a clear and healthy online environment. It can not only effectively curb the spread of bad information but also create a positive, healthy, and upward online space for the majority of netizens.

On the road to maintaining a clear and healthy online environment, we need the joint efforts of everyone to make bad websites and live broadcasts have nowhere to hide. This requires not only strengthened supervision and law enforcement by government departments but also the assumption of social responsibility by Internet enterprises, and more importantly, the improvement of online literacy and moral consciousness among the majority of netizens.

Only when we join hands and form a powerful synergy can we build an upright, harmonious, and orderly online world and enable the development of technology to truly benefit humanity.

[abitw]

Another Brick in the Wall

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Bußgeld wegen Liste mit sensiblen Daten

Was darf eine Arbeitgeberin?

In unserem Wirtschaftssystem ist das eine ganze Menge: Sie hat ein Weisungsrecht, kann die Arbeit verteilen und anordnen, aber sie darf dazu keine Listen mit sensiblen Daten der Beschäftigten anlegen - besonders dann nicht, wenn diese Daten dazu genutzt werden sollen ArbeitnehmerInnen zu diskriminieren oder gar auszusortieren.

Deshalb hat die Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte Meike Kamp nun ein Bußgeld über 215.000 Euro gegen den Dienstleister Humboldt Forum Service GmbH in der Stiftung Humboldt Forum verhängt. Diese Firma soll eine Art schwarze Liste über Mitarbeiter in der Probezeit geführt haben.

Darin wurde für mögliche Kündigungen zum Ende der Probezeit unzulässigerweise vermerkt:

sensible Informationen über den Gesundheitszustand einzelner Beschäftigter,

ob gesundheitliche und außerbetriebliche Gründe einer flexiblen Schichteinteilung entgegenstehen,

die regelmäßige Teilnahme an einer Psychotherapie,

das Interesse der KollegInnen an einer Betriebsratsgründung.

Hätte in der Firma schon ein Betriebsrat bestanden, hätte dieser die Geschäftsführung auf seine illegale Handlung aufmerksam machen und diese unterbinden können. Ob der Bußgeldbescheid in dieser Höhe rechtskräftig wird, muss sich noch zeigen.

Wichtig ist in jedem Fall, dass die Berliner Datenschutzbehörde tätig geworden ist. Auch wichtig ist, dass der Vorgang überhaupt bekannt geworden ist. Er wurde von der Stiftung Humboldt Forum an die Datenschutzbeauftragte gemeldet. Danke den Whistleblowern!

Mehr dazu bei https://www.rbb24.de/wirtschaft/beitrag/2023/08/datenschuetzerin-verhaengt-bussgeld-wegen-liste-zu-mitarbeitern-.html

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[crinaboros]

A matter of facts, rebels and leaked documents: Competing Romania illegal logging fact-finding missions advance amid rumours EU infringement could be dropped

Article supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting

by Crina-Gabriela Boroş

(Photo: Clearcut in Natura 2000 site from where FSC-certified wood is being exploited in Fagaras mountains, Romania, May 16 2023. Clearcuts are illegal in Natura 2000 sites. Copyrighted - all rights reserved.)

‘These guys are approving logging without any idea whether that logging would damage a key habitat or a species!’

This is the reason environmental activists quote when asked why they’re winning court cases against public authorities permitting logging in Natura 2000 sites in Romania. Yet, despite EU infringements and complaints, saws are louder than birds in protected forests. In a pre-European Parliamentary election year, are current facts sufficient for the EU to take Romania to the European Court of Justice?

Just days ago, a European Parliament Petition (PETI) delegation visited Romania following an illegal logging complaint, as well as a list of other habitat destruction complaints that have forest destruction as common denominator. Delegates chose a press-proofed route to witness that “everything was well and under control” in Romania’s forests, as Environment Minister Barna Tánczos would tell them in his welcoming speech.

Stopped from witnessing what PETI does, we accompanied rebel MEPs and environmental activists to allegedly protected sites to observe “unfolding crime” and reveal a catalogue of forest management irregularities.

LORDS OF TIMBER is a project supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting, managed by the European Journalism Centre and the International Press Institute. This is one article in a series exposing aspects tied to EU’s “famous” “environmental” infringement.

Notorious

“Romania faces several challenges with respect to the implementation of the nature protection Directives”, an EU Environment Commission (DG ENVI) official said just a few weeks ago, “but this is the famous one!”. She means the illegal logging matter raised by the Commission.

EU’s infringements database is, in fact, chokablok with environmental charges against Romania, like pus leaking from a wound that won’t heal.

Read the article in full on PRESSHub - https://presshub.ro/a-matter-of-facts-rebels-and-leaked-documents-competing-romania-illegal-logging-fact-finding-missions-advance-amid-rumours-ue-infrigment-could-be-dropped-273480/

LORDS OF TIMBER is a project supported by an IJ4EU grant for independent reporting, managed by the European Journalism Centre and the International Press Institute. This is one article in a series exposing aspects tied to EU’s “famous” “environmental” infringement.

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[carrzeecarbon]

Assange is actually conservatively the $87 trillion man

Continue reading Assange is actually conservatively the $87 trillion man

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BARRIER AGGRESSION № 5 NCSA Vs. The Fake Autistic Cabal

The National Council on Severe Autism's president Jill Escher and NCSA board member Dr. Lee Wachtel (who is somehow in a position of leadership at a hospital for disabled children) seem to believe that a cabal of insidious autism impersonators has seized control of a US government committee to carry out censorship and erasure of those Lee says have "true autism", which happens not to be a clinically or scientifically recognized phrase.

Wouldn't it be really strange if it turned that this claim had absolutely nothing to do with real life and was simply published to mobilize the public against disabled people the NCSA happens to disapprove of for having an academically and scientifically validated space within the same diagnostic semantic space as their own children and patients?

Rather than "autism advocacy", the NCSA almost seems like a group that's trying to promote targeted dislike of autistic people.

I'll be discussing this in detail in Part 5 of Barrier Aggression!

Under no circumstances should anyone watching my videos contact the people being discussed or criticized, either in private or in public.

I hope my project can raise awareness of wrongdoing against disabled people of many descriptions.

Thanks for watching!

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[djkerr]

The government charges Julius Cain... Judge Cain. ...Julius Cain with violating Chapter 18, USC 201, a Chapter 4 felony punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment. We allege he accepted bribes from a plaintiff in an eminent domain case.

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[excellence-12]

Impact of Whistleblowing on India’s Corporate Governance

Whistleblowing is the act of reporting any unethical activity or wrongdoing, such as fraud or corruption, within a company. The person who raises this red flag is called a whistleblower. Whistleblowing can be done by a Director or an employee or by outside persons such as auditors, vendors, contractors, suppliers or consultants. A strong whistleblower mechanism is one of the main pillars of a strong corporate governance system in a company. It is imperative for a company’s proper and ethical functioning. It helps in raising concerns, so that the company can find solutions before it is too late.

In India, the Whistleblowing or Vigil Mechanism is governed by:

The Companies Act, 2013

SEBI’s (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (LODR)

Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020

The Whistleblowing Protection Act, 2014

Both the Companies Act and LODR have made it mandatory for all the listed companies, above a certain threshold, to establish a ‘vigil mechanism’, for Directors and employees to report genuine concerns. They also state that adequate safeguard should exist for preventing victimisation of persons who use such a mechanism. Further, there is a need for a direct access to the chairperson of the Audit Committee of the company. The said policy has to be hosted on the website of the company. Under the Companies Act, powers have also been given to auditors to report on any fraud that might come to their attention.

The Whistleblowing Protection Act, 2014 aims at protecting all those who give information regarding any corrupt practices related to any Government official. This too strives to safeguard the whistleblower from any kind of victimisation.

For a whistleblowing mechanism to be successful, the following should be kept in mind –

To have a policy which is updated with all relevant details, at all times. The policy should be hosted on the website of the company. To mention that the policy is available on the intranet would not be adequate.

The policy should specifically state the category of persons who can report using the mechanism. Ideally, the applicability of the mechanism should extend to Directors, employees and all stakeholders of the company.

To make the policy easy to understand, it should contain an indicative list of inclusions and exclusions.

The manner of reporting should be specifically provided. The various modes through which different companies facilitate this are phone calls, emails, posting the complaint, and in-person meetings. Companies could administer this in-house by giving the contact details of a whistle officer, as he/she is usually called. Some companies outsource this function to a third party agency, and give details of the hotlines on which whistleblowers can contact the agency.

The policy should specifically mention whether or not it would consider anonymous complaints. Keeping quiet about it does not help whistleblowers who are not confident about not being victimised, should their identity be leaked.

Both the Companies Act and LODR specifically mention that in exceptional cases, access should be given to Chairperson of Audit Committee. Most companies also state that if the complaint is against the Chairperson or the Managing Director or the whistle officer, the same should be sent to the Chairperson of Audit Committee. In the case of a promoter company, any complaint filed against the promoter should also be directly submitted to the Audit Committee Chair. The Chairperson of Audit Committee being an Independent Director, is expected to act on the complaints independently without any bias or prejudice. For this reporting, the policy should also provide the contact details of the Audit Committee Chair, such as his/her email id or address, that is directly accessed by him/her.

The process followed in the case of a complaint being filed, should be mentioned in the policy. Care should be taken that in the process undue powers should not be given to any one person for dealing with a complaint that may be filed using this mechanism.

Companies are supposed to disclose, in their Annual reports, the number of whistleblower complaints filed and complaints resolved. To increase transparency and governance, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) vide Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (CARO 2020), has made it mandatory for companies to disclose all whistleblower complaints to the auditor, along with the due diligence done by the company.

For the mechanism to be successful, it is also important that employees are sensitised about this mechanism, through training and awareness programmes, to report any misconduct or wrongdoing. It is equally important to generate the confidence that the identity of a whistleblower will be kept confidential, and there will not be any harassment or victimisation of the person.

Increasingly, this mechanism is becoming powerful. Having a strong whistleblowing mechanism encourages employees to report incidents of misconduct, and wrongdoing, that may come to their notice. It helps to maintain an ethical workplace, while protecting the reputation of the company. Source: https://excellenceenablers.com/impact-of-whistleblowing-on-indias-corporate-governance/

[l8in]

Cyngor Gwynedd held a Governance and Audit Committee on Thursday, 6th February, 2025. Dafydd Meurig was in attendance after concerns were raised to his absences at the last meeting.

The January meeting heard mention that a balanced budget need not be set by councils and a 'zero based budget' could be used instead. This may work better for many councils and would give more insight in to how public money is used by departments within local government. 

No minutes were presented of the previous meeting on January 16th...

Reports presented to the meeting can be found in the agenda pack here -  https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru//documents/g5293/Public%20reports%20pack%2006th-Feb-2025%2010.00%20Governance%20and%20Audit%20Committee.pdf?T=10

Dewi Morgan, head of finance reported that £1,868k of underspend on corporate budgets was transferred to the council's financial strategy reserves. Nearly two million pounds not spent on services now in the bank. 

Savings and cuts were discussed... Gwynedd council report the increase in employer's National Insurance contributions will add £4.5 million to staff costs. The government aims to provide funding to cover the increased NI costs for council employees. 

There will also be a further increase in fees to the public for services provided as well as the increase in council tax.

An Internal Audit Plan by the Audit manager, Luned Fon Jones, was presented. She gives limited assurance in respect of schools transport, whistleblowing, homeless prevention grant and the housing support grant. 

The 'Out of County' placements are of particular concern in light of the comments made by the director of SS at the January meeting as to costs. 

A work improvement group (task and finish) was set up to look at the council owned smallholdings in 2023. Why this has not yet been completed is not known. Mention has been made, in a different council meeting, that costs of repairs to the smallholdings are to be paid for out of the council tax premium. Exit interviews do not appear on the list. Are staff now being asked their reasons when leaving the council's employment?

On page 138, Jones presents her audit on cyngor Gwynedd's Whistleblowing policy. She gives 'limited assurance' on the policy but on reading perhaps 'no assurance' would be more accurate...

Instead of an anonymous form, the council emailed just over 2,000 of its 6,000 employees.That only 817 responded is concerning but not a surprise. Jones gives no information to which departments these people work in...

More concerning is that 81 staff (who responded) would NOT blow the whistle on something that is - 'unlawful, fraudulent or corrupt' nor the - 'sexual, physical or emotional abuse of clients' 

Some staff gave their reasons for not whistleblowing - 

Their fears may well be justified...

Garem Jackson, the former head of education, 'outed' the teacher who whistleblew on Neil Foden in 2019. The council's safeguarding officer who advised Jackson to simply have a word with Foden about his behaviour has still not been named by the council and is presumably still in post. The staff responses show a toxic culture of fear and mistrust of senior managers.

Dafydd Gibbard, Geraint Owen and the former leader of the council, have all raised concerns with the culture that exists and the need for change... From March, 2023 - ...This is all rooted in a change of culture, behaviours and mind-set and its aim of realising the ambition across all parts of the Council's activities is acknowledged as a substantial challenge and one which requires a comprehensive programme of support... https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/documents/g4839/Public%20reports%20pack%2007th-Mar-2023%2013.00%20The%20Cabinet.pdf?T=10

Yet it is executive officers that are responsible for a council's culture and behaviours. Cabinet members and councillors of scrutiny committees turning a blind eye has only embedded the culture. Something is so very wrong within Gwynedd council...