Editing Whistleblowing (section)

==== Private-sector whistleblowing ====
[[Private sector|Private-sector]] whistleblowing is arguably more prevalent and suppressed in society today.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = The Rise of the Whistleblower and the Death of Privacy Impact of 9/11 and Enron|last = Castagnera|first = James|date =Spring 2003|journal = Labor Law Journal}}</ref> An example of private sector whistleblowing is when an employee reports to someone in a higher position such as a manager or to external factors, such as their lawyer or the police. Whistleblowing in the private sector is typically not high-profile or openly discussed in major news outlets, though occasionally, third parties expose human rights violations and exploitation of workers.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Where am I wearing?|last = Timmerman|first = Kelsey|publisher = California: Wiley|year = 2012}}</ref>

Many governments attempt to protect such whistleblowers. In the United States, for example, there are organizations such as the [[United States Department of Labor]] (DOL) and laws such as the [[Sarbanes–Oxley Act|Sarbanes-Oxley Act]] and the [[United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines]] for Organizations (FSGO) that protect whistleblowers in the private sector. Thus, despite government efforts to help regulate the private sector, the employees must still weigh their options. They either expose the company and stand the moral and ethical high ground; or expose the company, lose their job, their reputation and potentially the ability to be employed again. According to a study at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], out of three hundred whistleblowers studied, sixty-nine percent had foregone that exact situation and were either fired or forced to retire after taking the ethical high ground. It is outcomes like these that make it all that much harder to accurately track the prevalence of whistleblowing in the private sector.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Case 10th Edition|publisher=O.C. Ferrell, John Fraedich, Linda Ferrell|year=2014|isbn=978-1285423715|pages=193|via=Cengage Learning}}</ref>