For technology plans, there is safety in numbers

Amber Scottra knows Very good that strong stories can change society – and that strong organizations will try to undermine those who tell them. In 2015, her 3 -month -old son Karl died on his first day of day care. Skora wrote about sadness and anger that she was not with him Editorial About the bad ruling to obtain parental leave in the United States; Her story helped New York City employees to win their battle in order to improve the family vacation. In 2019, notes wrote about leaving her interconnected religion, Jehovah’s Witnesses, who revealed issues within the secret organization. The book cost her friends and family members, but she heard from many people who also questioned some controversial practices of religion.

After that, while working in a media outlet connecting the informants with journalists, she noticed similarities in the forced tactics used by groups trying to suppress information. “There is a kind of playing book that strong entities seem to use over and over again,” she says. “You are showing something about the powerful, trying to discredit your reputation, people may cross you in your community.”

In September 2024, Skurra Bosst, with a non -profit organization, a non -profit organization that helps people in the technology or government to share information of public attention with additional protection – with many options to determine how to use information and how an unknown person remains.

The main offer for PSST is “Safe Digital Safe”-which users can access through an unknown encoded box from one end to a hosted tip on PSST.ORGWhere they can enter a description of their fears. (Just accepts text entries and not document downloads, to make it difficult for institutions to find the source of the leaks.)

For the secrets of secrets safely, those whose technical violations can move to PSST.ORG and enter details in an encrypted text box.

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What makes PSST unique is something that the “information guarantee” system calls – users have the option to maintain their own introduction so that another person shares similar concerns about the same company or institution.

While the organization was preparing to launch it, the PSST team members helped a set of Microsoft Employees who were not satisfied with how the company markets its products Amnesty International for fossil fuel companies. Only one employee was ready to speak publicly, but others have provided supportive documents. With the help of the PSST lawyer, workers filed a complaint to Securities and Stock Exchange Committee Against the company and broadcast their concerns in a story published by the Atlantic Ocean.

Jennifer Gibson, founder Jennifer Gibson, says that the combination of reports from multiple sources defends some of the isolated effects of those whose violations and makes it difficult for companies to delete a story as an indignant employee complaint. It also helps to protect the identity of unknown informants by making it difficult to determine the leakage source. This may allow more information to reach broad daylight, because it encourages people to share what they know even if they do not have the full story.