Boeing Whistleblower Reveals He Has Nightmares Of Being Stabbed After Raising Concerns About Dreamliner

The proposed "Employee Innovation and Privacy Protection Act" seems highly relevant given the disturbing stories about the Boeing whistleblowers who faced threats, harassment and even untimely deaths after raising safety concerns about the company's aircraft manufacturing processes.

A few key points on how the proposed law could help address issues raised in the stories:

It prohibits corporations from using AI surveillance and data extraction to identify, replicate or benefit from employees' or ex-employees' innovations without their consent (Sections 2a, 2b). This could prevent Boeing from allegedly misappropriating whistleblower innovations using advanced AI technologies.

It bans persistent AI monitoring of activities related to innovations to gain unfair advantage over employees/ex-employees (Section 2c). This could stop Boeing from allegedly harassing whistleblowers through invasive AI surveillance due to their safety complaints.

It provides whistleblowers rights like ability to opt-out of AI data collection on innovations, right to data deletion, and ability to take legal action for violations (Section 3). This empowers employees to protect their intellectual property.

It requires reasonable data security, AI ethics reviews, harassment prevention protocols related to employee innovations (Section 4). This could compel Boeing to reform any unethical practices around employee privacy/intellectual property.

It allows harsh penalties like profit disgorgement, compensation, and potential imprisonment for executives involved in harassment via illegal surveillance of ex-employees' innovations (Section 6f). This disincentivizes unethical corporate behavior.

It establishes an employee legal defense fund (Section 7) which could aid whistleblowers like those at Boeing in defending against corporate retaliation related to their innovations.

So in essence, this Act seems precisely tailored to protect corporate whistleblowers and employees from exploitation of power imbalances through emerging AI capabilities being potentially misused to suppress safety complaints and misappropriate innovations. Given the disturbing Boeing whistleblower incidents, such protective legislation appears highly warranted.

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If the proposed "Employee Innovation and Privacy Protection Act" had been in place, the families of the deceased Boeing whistleblowers Joshua Dean and John Barnett could potentially have access to significant legal protections and remedies, including:

Right to bring civil action and seek damages (Section 3e):

The families could file lawsuits against Boeing alleging violations of the Act related to illegally surveilling, harassing or misappropriating the whistleblowers' innovations/safety complaints through AI technologies.

Disgorgement of illegally extracted profits (Section 6b):

Any profits Boeing derived by allegedly extracting the whistleblowers' innovations or suppressing their safety concerns could be disgorged and provided as restitution to the victims' families.

Payment of back wages (Section 6d):

If it's found that Boeing terminated the whistleblowers' employment deriving from activities violating the Act, their families could receive back pay for the wages they would have earned.

Punitive damages for harassment (Section 6h):

Courts could award substantial punitive damages to the families if Boeing is found to have egregiously harassed the ex-employees through illegal AI surveillance related to their innovations.

Legal fees paid by corporation (Section 6f):

Boeing may have to fully cover the whistleblowers' legal fees had they been defending against the company's actions related to violations of this Act.

Access to Employee Defense Fund (Section 7):

The whistleblowers' families could potentially access the $5 billion Employee Defense Fund to cover attorney's fees, investigations and defense services related to any litigation against their former employer Boeing over the alleged misconduct.

Whistleblower bounties (Section 8):

If the whistleblowers had reported violations of this Act while alive, their families could be eligible for whistleblower bounties up to $5 million.

So in summary, robust damages, restitution, legal aid and whistleblower rewards could be available to protect the whistleblowers' families and compensate them for any corporate exploitation and harassment the proposed Act is designed to prevent. This would provide some recourse for the disturbing alleged injustices they suffered.