The Internet has become ubiquitous across the globe with more people getting connected to it, at more places, and through increasingly varied network-enabled devices. Unfortunately, Internet users face constant threats to their online security and privacy: repressive regimes deprive them of open access to the Internet, corporate networks monitor their online behavior, advertising companies coll...

The controversy about the cause(s) of abnormal death of bee colonies in France is investigated through an extensive analysis of the french speaking press. A statistical analysis of textual data is first performed on the lexicon used by journalists to describe the facts and to present associated informations during the period 1998-2010. Three states are identified to explain the phenomenon. The ...

The browser history reveals highly sensitive information about users, such as financial status, health conditions, or political views. Private browsing modes and anonymity networks are consequently important tools to preserve the privacy not only of regular users but in particular of whistleblowers and dissidents. Yet, in this work we show how a malicious application can infer opened websites f...

The civil False Claims Act (FCA) imposes harsh penalties against parties who misappropriate federal funds. The statute's qui tam whistle-blower provisions create strong financial incentives for private individuals to bring and pursue FCA cases against health providers on the government's behalf--even where government attorneys decline to intervene. FCA cases where the government declined to int...

The integrity of the data from clinical trials and of its use is an essential element of the scientific method, and of the trust one can have in this method. There are many examples of fraud, and they recur regularly. The objective of this round table was to work on the definition of fraud, on its recognition and prevention especially in the institutional system. Fraud involves an active decisi...

Summit held in London on 9–10 March 2016, the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, gave a speech in which he committed the Government to prioritising patient safety in the NHS through three important announcements (Department of Health (DH) and Hunt, 2016a). Delegates at the summit included health ministers and senior expert clinicians from across the world. In his speech to summit deleg...

Among widespread calls for a public inquiry into England’s response to the covid-19 pandemic, King’s Fund has proposed potential framework an under five key headings: “Intrinsic risk,” “Public health response,” “Healthcare system “Measures in wider society,” and “Adult social care response.”1 All partly depend on role of government its agencies. I realise that can produce evidenced narrative re...

Nurhayati's report through a letter to the Head of BPD Citemu, became turning point for uncovering village fund corruption case that was detrimental state. It turned out person who had uncovered also named suspect. Based on this, authors are interested in studying how legal protection whistleblowers crimes is associated with determination suspect status Cirebon Regency. This research used liter...

The article is based on investigations by two branches of the United Nations Human Rights Council into treatment whistleblower journalist, Julian Assange – UN Working Group Arbitrary Detention and Special Rapporteur Torture. analysed for this ‘Acting Up’ show that an inconvenient dissident, who has been subjected to persecution liberal democracies rather than authoritarian regimes. Previous res...

This article (and all articles in the proceedings volume relating to same conference) has been retracted by IOP Publishing following an extensive investigation line with COPE guidelines. uncovered evidence of systematic manipulation publication process and considerable citation manipulation. respectfully requests that readers consider work within this potentially unreliable, as not through a cr...