Psst

 

Year established: September 2024
Website: www.psst.org
Region: International
 
Organisation Bio: Psst is a non-partisan, non-profit public service that helps people bring forward public interest information. We provide full-service pro bono legal and media support and strategy for whistleblowers but also for people who prefer to share the information they have and stay behind the scenes and/or remain anonymous.

Psst recognizes that people with concerns of wrongdoing have different needs and goals—some may have the full picture and be ready to come forward publicly, while others may just have a piece of the puzzle and want a gut-check. Perhaps you are seeing code that is a red flag, or a secret department, or something that seems possibly illegal? Or, you want to say something, but you don’t want to be the first to step into the line of fire? Whatever it is, Psst lets you save your information in our Safe and get immediate help.

Psst is the brainchild of three veterans in whistleblowing support, media relations, and non-profit development. Armed with years of experience working directly with insiders in the tech world and beyond, we saw what isn’t working in the current system and came together to design a better approach–one that prioritizes smart strategy, collectivization where possible, safety, storytelling and support.

Work on whistleblowing: Psst helps individuals ready to be whistleblowers, but we also recognize that, in order for more people to be part of holding power to account, we need to shift from an individual pursuit to collective action. This collective approach comes in many forms, suited to each case: it can be you and the Psst team working together—or it can extend to joining with others who have deposited similar concerns into the Safe. Whichever form your journey takes, we put a team around you to diffuse the risks associated with whistleblowing while increasing the impact of disclosures.

The mechanism for doing so is the Psst Safe, a secure vault where insiders can record their concerns, whether big or small, while protecting their identities. People who enter the Safe and are ready to make a disclosure can request immediate legal and media support. Or, they can save their deposit to see if a collective disclosure is possible. Individual deposits in the repository are vetted for authenticity and analyzed to uncover patterns among deposits. If two or more people’s concerns “match”, they are offered legal advice on how they might disclose; depositors are given the option to be part of the collective, always with legal and safety measures in place.

The Psst Safe is backed up by Psst Legal and Psst Story, which are run by veterans in whistleblowing protection and storytelling.
 
Contact: Psst@Psst.org