Looking beyond Whistleblower, after six years and 7,000 tips

The Whistleblower column and blog are shutting down, but our commitment remains to investigating tips from readers.

FTC: Immigrants misled by firm

April 14, 2014
A Baltimore couple and their company were ordered to pay back $616,000 to Spanish-speaking immigrants for immigration services that they were neither qualified nor authorized to provide, the Federal Trade Commission announced last week.

Firm faces heat after "jerk" labels

April 7, 2014
A company that labeled millions of Facebook users as a "jerk" or "not a jerk" is facing federal scrutiny after the agency said it improperly obtained information to create user profiles.
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