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    The Protected Disclosures Act 2000 is a piece of New Zealand legislation regarding the disclosures, in the public interest, of serious wrongdoing (sometimes...
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  • United Kingdom is protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA). Amongst other things, under the Act protected disclosures are permitted even...
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  • Information Act 1982 and Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, as well as whistleblower complaints under the Protected Disclosures Act 2000...
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    sections 43A to L into the Employment Rights Act 1996, titled "Protected Disclosures". It provides that a disclosure which the whistleblower makes to their...
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    under the Employment Relations Act 2000. In addition whistle blowers are protected under the Protected Disclosures Act 2000. Section 112 of the ERA states...
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  • Technology Act, 2000 (also known as ITA-2000, or the IT Act) is an Act of the Indian Parliament (No 21 of 2000) notified on 17 October 2000. It is the...
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    The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (c. 23) (RIP or RIPA) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, regulating the powers of public...
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    The Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO Act, is a proposed United States law that would amend previous labor laws such as the...
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    Parliament report (p. 54 ff) and confirmed later by the Edward Snowden disclosures the following ground stations presently have, or have had, a role in...
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  • for revocation under Section 72 of the UK Patents Act. For instance, an insufficiency of disclosure might arise if references to standardisation documents...
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  • Thumbnail for Freedom of Information Act (United States)
    Information Act (FOIA /ˈfɔɪjə/ FOY-yə), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of...
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  • the disclosures. Likewise, relationship satisfaction was found to correlate with sexual disclosures. For men, high levels of sexual self-disclosure predicted...
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    the period following the disclosures more heavily than their civic public benefit. In its first assessment of these disclosures, the Pentagon concluded...
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    having made legitimate whistleblower disclosures. Passed in September 2014, the All Circuit Review Extension Act authorized federal employees to appeal...
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  • Key disclosure laws, also known as mandatory key disclosure, is legislation that requires individuals to surrender cryptographic keys to law enforcement...
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  • Thumbnail for Donald Trump's disclosures of classified information
    sharing of national defense information on social media and private disclosures, both known and unknown. During Trump's tenure as president, lax security...
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    The Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29) (DPA) was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to protect personal data stored on computers or in...
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    2013 mass surveillance disclosures), Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, who introduced the Patriot Act in 2001, said that the...
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    of Lawson, however, suggest that the disclosures of a contractor's employee are protected only if those disclosures pertain to fraud perpetrated by a publicly...
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  • In addition, the Act contains various provisions to facilitate the use of electronic documents. PIPEDA became law on 13 April 2000 to promote consumer...
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    The Protect America Act of 2007 (PAA), (Pub. L. 110–55 (text) (PDF), 121 Stat. 552, enacted by S. 1927), is a controversial amendment to the Foreign Intelligence...
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    (text) (PDF), 112 Stat. 2681-728, enacted October 21, 1998). The act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information by...
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    instruments protecting against discrimination in employment on grounds of sexual orientation, age, and religion or belief. The act protects people against...
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    Indenture Act of 1939 1940 – Investment Advisers Act of 1940 1940 – Investment Company Act of 1940 1968 – Williams Act (Securities Disclosure Act) 1975 –...
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    require formal registration and can be protected indefinitely, as long as they remain undisclosed. Instead, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), among other measures...
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    Investigatory Powers Tribunal (category 2000 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    privileged relationship is usually strictly protected under British law, and leading campaigners[who?] said the disclosures had "troubling implications for the...
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  • Government of India created under Section 70A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (amended 2008), through a gazette notification on 16 January 2014. Based...
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  • Thumbnail for Children's Internet Protection Act
    The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is one of a number of bills that the United States Congress proposed to limit children's exposure to pornography...
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    departments. The case began with an application under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by journalist Rob Evans. The government departments admitted that they...
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    and (c) of the IG Act. During the second half of FY 2011, DoD IG continued to select cases involving Title 5 protected disclosures in four core mission...
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