Ethics control

We've only started to forget about Facebook data privacy scandal, and here we are again: now Amazon, Apple and Google joined Facebook and have to respond to the questions from the lawmakers. What is so wrong and unethical about these businesses that they need to answer to the congress?

If you still use more than three tabs in your browser or do several tasks at a time, then this post is for you. We compiled some empirical evidence that you might be doing the stupidest things in your life.

What time is it? Compliance o'clock. 2019 and especially 2020 are determinant for compliance — it's the right time to show its effectiveness during one of the worst economic crises and implement the recommendations from DOJ.

Pandemic does make a difference in our daily life even though it's not always positive. What happens with compliance systems when they address more issues than ever?

If you think that academic integrity is something related exclusively to students' problems and scientific research, we need to reassure you. Integrity, whether academic or not, is very close to ethics — let's try to value it accordingly.

A new country in our #whistleblowing reviews is the UAE: all thanks to its recent initiative on witness protection. When the largest economies choose to stand on the whistleblowers' side (sooner or later), it becomes a good sign of strengthening compliance standards.

Whistleblowing is about essential details and decisions — that's why we remind one more time about its entry requirements and answer popular questions.

We continue a series of studies on the compliance of the largest Ukrainian companies with the norms of anti-corruption legislation. This year, we viewed under the microscope the companies that won the biggest public procurement deals in 2019.

How come Singapore is one of the most developed and prosperous economic centres on Earth, but does not have a robust whistleblowing protection system? The secret lies in its cultural values and complimentary anticorruption laws. Greet a jewel in our coverage of Asian whistleblowing laws and compliance systems.

Breaking news: OECD finalized its integrity recommendations and released Public Integrity Handbook. Along with it, we've gathered some lessons and revelations from OECD live sessions obtained during a global pandemic — compliance and integrity are more important than ever before.