Provides a definition of whistleblowing; examines whether Edward Snowden is a whistleblower; discusses internal and external whistleblowing; draws a parallel between Snowden's audacious act of civil disobedience with the March 8, 1971 break-in of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania.

1. Snowden
as
Whistleblower?
Kathleen Clark
Future of Privacy Forum
January 2014
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2. professor
practitioner
board member

3. Government
Accountability
Project
(GAP)
board member

4. Whistleblower
discloses
alleged
wrongdoing or
danger
in an effort to
stop or
otherwise address
the wrongdoing or danger

5. white paper
on the
law
Of
whistleblowing

6. Whistleblowing Law
1. Require disclosure
2. Prohibit retaliation
3. Compensate for retaliation
4. Require institutions to facilitate
5. Provide financial incentives

7. Whistleblowing Law
1. Require disclosure
2. Prohibit retaliation
3. Compensate for retaliation
4. Require institutions to facilitate
5. Provide financial incentives

8. Whistleblowing Law
1. Require disclosure
2. Prohibit retaliation
3. Compensate for retaliation
4. Require institutions to facilitate
5. Provide financial incentives

9. Whistleblowing Law
1. Require disclosure
2. Prohibit retaliation
3. Compensate for retaliation
4. Require institutions to facilitate
5. Provide financial incentives

10. Whistleblowing Law
1. Require disclosure
2. Prohibit retaliation
3. Compensate for retaliation
4. Require institutions to facilitate
5. Provide financial incentives

11. Whistleblowing Law
1. Require disclosure
2. Prohibit retaliation
3. Compensate for retaliation
4. Require institutions to facilitate
5. Provide financial incentives

12. confidentiality obligations
restrictions on personal data

13. not
all
whistleblowing
is
legally
protected

14. Key Distinctions
recipient
accuracy
status
type of alleged wrongdoing

15. United States
v.
United Kingdom

16. Public
Interest
Disclosure
Act
(PIDA)

17. internal
v.
external

18. Why
didn’t
Snowden
use
internal
channels
?

19. NSA Whistleblowers
William Binney
Kirk Wiebe
Thomas Drake

20. NSA Whistleblowers
William Binney
Kirk Wiebe
Thomas Drake

21. NSA Whistleblowers
William Binney
Kirk Wiebe
Thomas Drake

22. NSA Whistleblowers
William Binney
Kirk Wiebe
Thomas Drake

23. Edward Snowden
whistleblower
faces
legal
sanction

24. whistleblowing
as
civil
disobedience

25. Historical parallel:
March 8, 1971
break-in at
FBI office in
Media, PA

26. Snowden
as
Whistleblower?
Kathleen Clark
kathleen_clark@mac.com
Future of Privacy Forum
January 2014
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