WIN is delighted to welcome Psst as a new Associate to the Network. Psst is a non-partisan, non-profit public service that helps people bring forward public interest information. Psst provides pro bono legal and media support / strategy for whistleblowers, but also for people who prefer to share the information they have and stay behind the scenes.
Psst addresses the threat to whistleblowing by shifting it from an individual pursuit to collective action. This collective action can come in different forms, but all with the aim of diffusing the risks associated with whistleblowing while increasing the impact of disclosures.
The mechanism for doing so is the Psst Safe, a secure repository where insiders can record their concerns, whether big or small, in a repository while protecting their identities. People who enter the Safe and are ready to make a public 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.
Read more on their Associate page.