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Persuasive Essay On Whistleblowing

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Whistle-blowing Introduction Whistle-blowing is the act taken by an employee or former employee of disclosing what he believes to be unethical or illegal behaviour taken by his employer. There are two ways in which a person can disclose information. It can be done by internal whistle-blowing or external whistle-blowing. Internal whistle-blowing would be considered when an employee discloses unethical or illegal behaviour to higher management while external whistle-blowing would be when the information was disclosed to the public. The duty to be a whistle-blower over rides the duty that you have to your client or employer. The failure to report unethical or dangerous behaviour of an employer can result in the revoking of your licence, even if it does not result in serious injury or loss of life. (Bouville, 2007) What is whistle-blowing? …show more content…

He is known for his part in leaking top secret NSA documents leading to revelations about the US surveillance on phone and internet communications. Snowden is now seeking asylum in Russia. He does not have the documents with him anymore as he has handed them over to First Look Media set up by Glenn Greenwald. The US government believe that the documents will never be returned to the NSA which leaves them to wonder what will be the next story to be revealed as not even the government can get access to the documents. Snowden actually tried to leave digital breadcrumbs when taking the documents so that the government would see what documents he looked at and what ones he copied and stole. He did this so that the government would see that his intentions were to whistle-blow and that the government could prepare for the revelations. Snowden says “I figured they would have a hard time” “I didn’t think they would be completely in capable”. He is talking about the agency missing the clues he left for them so that they could prepare for the future

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