{"id":3177,"date":"2021-10-09T05:48:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T03:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/09\/welcome-to-the-party-five-past-tech-whistleblowers-on-the-pitfalls-of-speaking-out\/"},"modified":"2021-10-09T05:48:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T03:48:27","slug":"welcome-to-the-party-five-past-tech-whistleblowers-on-the-pitfalls-of-speaking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/09\/welcome-to-the-party-five-past-tech-whistleblowers-on-the-pitfalls-of-speaking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Welcome to the party\u2019: five past tech whistleblowers on the pitfalls of speaking out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, joined a growing list of Silicon Valley former employees to call out company policies<\/p>\n<p>When Frances Haugen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/03\/former-facebook-employee-frances-haugen-identifies-herself-as-whistleblower\">revealed<\/a> she was the Facebook whistleblower who supplied internal documents to Congress and the Wall Street Journal, she joined a growing list of current and former Silicon Valley employees who\u2019ve come forward to call out military contracts, racism, sexism, contributions to climate crisis, pay disparities and more in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>In the past days, the Guardian spoke with five former employees of Amazon, Google, and Pinterest who\u2019ve spoken out about their companies\u2019 policies. The conversations revealed Haugen\u2019s experience has been singular in some respects. Few of them received the international praise bestowed upon her. Some of them said they have faced termination, retaliation, harassment and prolonged litigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/08\/tech-whistleblowers-facebook-frances-haugen-amazon-google-pinterest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/14b69542fdaaa9ee040af2869caee95e0485d14b\/0_36_4885_2931\/master\/4885.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6ce2c0a0fb316f67f5f7f04c85cb2a74\" title=\"\u2018Welcome to the party\u2019: five past tech whistleblowers on the pitfalls of speaking out\" \/>Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, joined a growing list of Silicon Valley former employees to call out company policies<br \/>\nWhen Frances Haugen revealed she was the Facebook whistleblower who supplied internal documents to Congress and the Wall Street Journal, she joined a growing list of current and former Silicon Valley employees who\u2019ve come forward to call out military contracts, racism, sexism, contributions to climate crisis, pay disparities and more in the industry.<br \/>\nIn the past days, the Guardian spoke with five former employees of Amazon, Google, and Pinterest who\u2019ve spoken out about their companies\u2019 policies. The conversations revealed Haugen\u2019s experience has been singular in some respects. Few of them received the international praise bestowed upon her. Some of them said they have faced termination, retaliation, harassment and prolonged litigation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, joined a growing list of Silicon Valley former employees to call out company policies When Frances Haugen revealed she was the Facebook whistleblower who supplied internal documents to Congress and the Wall Street Journal, she joined a growing list of current and former Silicon Valley employees who\u2019ve come forward to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/09\/welcome-to-the-party-five-past-tech-whistleblowers-on-the-pitfalls-of-speaking-out\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Welcome to the party\u2019: five past tech whistleblowers on the pitfalls of speaking out<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}