Lessons Learned from Implementing Real Life Whistleblowing Platforms

Presented at HOPE X (2014), July 20, 2014, 10 a.m. (60 minutes).

Whistleblowers and online whistleblowing platforms have received quite a bit of attention recently. Discussions range from the feasibility of implementing a sufficiently secure platform online for whistleblowers, to the changing role of journalism, to the ethics of whistleblowing itself. The lessons learned from implementing multiple whistleblowing platforms in various contexts will be presented here. The main experience is from Publeaks, a Dutch whistleblowing system based on the GlobaLeaks platform, launched in September of 2013. (Publeaks now has almost all of the national press on board.) The development of other leaking sites - like Wildleaks in Africa - will be discussed. Globaleaks and SecureDrop will be introduced and compared. The panel will reflect on social and legal challenges that your group might be facing if you try to implement a whistleblowing platform. You will get some practical and theoretical insight into how you can create your own platform, whether for internal whistleblowing in an organization or for broad multi-stakeholder installations like Publeaks.


Presenters:

  • Jurre van Bergen
    Jurre van Bergen (Dr. Whax) is a software developer at Greenhost. He contributed to the technical realization of Publeaks and Wildleaks. He is one of the founders of Technologia Incognita, contributes to several software projects, is treasurer of Hart voor Internetvrijheid, and was one of the organizers of NoisySquare at OHM2013.
  • Sacha van Geffen
    Sacha van Geffen is the managing director of Greenhost, a Dutch web hosting company dedicated to providing a sustainable Internet infrastructure and protecting digital civil rights. Sacha has a background in science and technology studies, artificial intelligence, and law. From this background, he can relate to the technical aspects as well as to the social and political aspects of technological change.

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