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Blueprint for Free Speech joined 171 experts, companies, and organisations in more than 35 countries in asking world leaders to support strong encryption and to reject any law, policy, or mandate that would undermine digital security. The letter is...
Too often, we have seen parliaments pass whistleblower laws in haste – whether in response to scandals or disasters that whistleblowers could have prevented, or to comply with the letter (but not the spirit) of anti-corruption treaties. The outcome...
Blueprint for Free Speech is sponsoring this free event, for all those interested in expanding their encryption and personal online security skills.
Public support for Edward Snowden in Germany has been overwhelming from the moment he exposed the US-led mass surveillance program in June 2013. “Vacancy for Snowden” banners have been hung all over Berlin, urging German officials to grant him...
Thanks to the dedication of activists and reform-minded policy-makers, civil society is making real advancements in whistleblower rights. Blueprint for Free Speech congratulates everyone on the winning side of these important legislative victories! New, comprehensive laws to protect whistleblowers...
Rights and protections for whistleblowers have been improved all over the world thanks to international and regional collaboration – particularly among NGOs and activists. To strengthen these joint efforts, Blueprint for Free Speech is co-hosting two important whistleblower events...
In a story that illustrates the risks and unpredictability of being a whistleblower, a government employee in Serbia was imprisoned with the complicity of the very same official whose alleged corruption she reported two years earlier.
Help Get the Word Out Data privacy activists are calling for a National Day of Action against Metadata, as the new proposed Data Retention Legislation makes its way through the senate. Everyone who is concerned about the implications of...
Members of the United Kingdom Parliament have been added to the list of prescribed persons to whom whistleblowers may make a protected disclosures under the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 1999. Under the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order...
The CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association) is set to develop a best practices guideline for whistleblowing arrangements within an organization. This is aimed at the public and private sectors, as well as NGOs and voluntary organizations. This guideline...
Following a string of government and corporate scandals in recent years, Greece, which has seen a long has enacted its first legal protections for whistleblowers. Passed in April 2014, the law seeks to protect people who report corruption to authorities...
The Associated Whistle-Blowing Press (AWP) has officially launched its second local whistleblowing platform. The website, 'Fíltrala' (literally "leak it"), is targeted at the Spanish public and uses software developed by GlobaLeaks—an open-source whistleblowing framework for safe...