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Dec 18, 2020

SEC Awards Whistleblowers $3.6 Million for Reporting Fraud

On December 18, 2020, the SEC announced three different whistleblower awards totaling over $3.6 million. Because the SEC does not disclose details about its whistleblower awards unless the enforcement action is public, there is no information about the cases themselves except for the SEC’s bare-bones press release. (This is...

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Dec 8, 2020

Big Tech’s Culture of Retaliation Can Be Illegal

Dr. Timnit Gebru’s Firing is a Flash Point in the Wars Over Algorithmic Bias On October 2, Timnit Gebru—the leader of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team—announced in a series of tweets on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, that she had been fired. Google executive Jeff Dean said in a statement on...