Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 5, 2017, 5:20 p.m.
(60 minutes)
How does the public view whistleblowers? Would they use social media, blogs or other methods to blow the whistle? We report on gold-standard public polls across 4 European countries. We will present recent cases in Europe, and track the progress - and setbacks - in European protections.
#Privacy #Society #Politics #SurveillanceState
We will present recent whistleblower cases from Ireland to Italy, as Europe moves toward a possible EU Directive on whistleblower protection that would cover all its members. We will also present the results of a general population poll across 4 countries to regarding what the public thinks about whistleblowing.
Presenters:
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Cannelle
Cannelle is a legal scholar writing her PhD on the protection of whistleblowers at the European Center for Law and Politics in Bremen University. Her research interests focus on the impact of technologies and the internet on fundamental rights of expression and privacy. She is also interested in the use of the technologies and internet to facilitate the uncovering of human rights violations and give justice to victims.
Cannelle has contributed in various white-collar crimes and international criminal law litigation within Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International. She's worked on field missions promoting political and cultural rights in Mongolia and Brazil and has lately extensively worked on the Lux Leaks trial held in Luxembourg. She lives in Berlin.
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Veronika Nad
Veronika Nad is an advocate for whistleblower protection.
As a trained anthropologist, she has lived and worked in East Africa, India and Turkey, where she began to take an interest in the cultural norms of crime and favoritism. Today, she actively supports national campaigns raising awareness on whistleblowing in different EU countries. Together with partners from Italy and Spain, she engages in a pan-European campaign advocating for an EU Directive on whistleblower protection.
Veronika lives in Berlin.
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Suelette
Dr Suelette Dreyfus - Lecturer in the School of Computing and Info Systems at Univ of Melbourne; Founder, Blueprint for Free Speech NGO; Civil Society Engineer.
Researcher. Writer. Often there At The Start.
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