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Whistleblowers are known as people who betray their employer or leak information of high secrecy. Blake Woodard gave a wonderful presentation about whistleblowers, what they do, and what has happened to whistleblowers from the past. Some of the names that may be recognizable is Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. These are people who leaked top secret information about the government and due to the information that was given out revealed to the public just how secretive the government is and just how. much they are hiding from the public. I found this to be the most interesting of the presentations because Edward Snowden played a big role in the presentation I gave about Five Eyes, a mass surveillance agency the is comprised of five different countries including the United States. 

    Edward Snowden worked for NSA in 2009 where he stayed collecting information about the government. Snowden, who is now in hiding in Russia, leaked information about the secret agency PRISM. This agency using metadata to collect private information about everyone. They tap into companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook to collect personal data about you. Julian Assange founded Wikileaks, this is how he became a whistleblower. Julian would hack into government servers and release information the government was hiding. A big case that Blake Woodard talks about and that a lot of people know about is the Hillary Clinton cases. Julian hacked the servers and released internal information from Hillary Clinton.

According to Whistleblower.org there was an act passed in 1989 to protect whistleblowers. The act states "Public employees' right to speak out about misconduct." I was confused about this at first because my belief was that Julian Assange was arrested due to whistleblowing but after some research it is evident that Julian Assange was arrested and put into maximum security prison for hacking the government servers. All in all The government does everything in their power to stop whistleblowers in their tracks and keep them silent.