Whistleblower Laws, Google, and Privacy

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I realize so-called 'whistleblower' laws are weakened in the private sector, and now, since the SCOTUS ruling last week, virtually non-existent for GOV employees.

Has anyone been harmed by Google search?
I haven't yet but there is a page that shows up where I took my employer, and our Bargaining Group, to Federal Court on a Civil Rights suit...and won.
I recieved no monetary settlement other than back dues and my attorney fees paid, this was about upholding the Bill of Rights, but that's a different story.

This got me thinking.
I would imagine that many "whistleblower" type issues make the news.
Where is the protection, for future employment, when your name is plastered on Google and many employers routinely use it to check on us?

Does having access to this info, this fast and easy, have a self censoring affect on potential people who see wrong and want to come forward?

In this 'David vs. Goliath' scenario...David's duty is getting more and more difficult.
Isn't it?


The RWnuts always squawk about "activist judges" on the airwaves constantly.
Talk about squelching those Government employees who might come forward to reveal corruption?
Well, it just doesn't get anymore 'activist' or ugly than this Conservative bench ruling:



ON EDIT:


High Court's Free-Speech Ruling Favors Government
Public Workers on Duty Not Protected

By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 31, 2006; A01

The Supreme Court yesterday bolstered the government's power to discipline public employees who make charges of official misconduct, ruling that the First Amendment does not protect those who blow the whistle in the course of their official duties.

By a vote of 5 to 4, the court ruled that the Los Angeles County district attorney's office did not violate prosecutor Richard Ceballos's freedom of speech by allegedly demoting him after he wrote to supervisors charging that a sheriff's deputy had lied to get a search warrant.

Dissenters on the court, civil libertarians and public-employee unions said the ruling, which extends to all of the nation's public employees, could deter government workers from going to their bosses with evidence of corruption or ineptitude.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053000463_pf.html

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1. That ruling is shocking on so many levels!

It vindicates obtaining a search warrant under false pretenses, tells bosses it's OK to retaliate on whistleblowers, silences whistleblowers, emboldens would be wrong doers, good thing we don't have no activist judges anymore. Now they are out and out ASSHOLES!!

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2. Activist assholes