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On July 30, we will participate in the AI Panel at National Whistleblower Day on Capitol Hill, during which we will reveal 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s official announcement.

#PublishYourPolicies #NationalWhistleblowerDay

AI Companies: Publish Your 
Whistleblowing Policies — Blueprint for Free Speech Blueprint joins open call to AI leaders to establish and publicise dedicated, protected whistleblowing channels

Blueprint joins open call to AI leaders to establish and publicise dedicated, protected whistleblowing channels #publishyourpolicies www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/ai-companies-publish-your-whistleblowing-policies

AI Companies: Publish Your Whistleblowing Policies We are a coalition of whistleblowing-, and AI non-profits and scholars. We call on AI companies to make transparent their whistleblowing policies. Because trust is built on transparency.

An open call to AI leaders - publish your whistleblowing policies! We can't keep AI developers accountable unless we support insiders to make their concerns known. aiwi.org/publishyourp...

UK ministers urged to pass bill protecting DEI whistleblowers Legislation would compel employers of more than 250 workers to reveal disability and ethnicity pay gaps

UK will recognise whistleblowers who diclose disability or ethnic pay gaps www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

UN Human Rights Council passes resolution on the damage corruption does to human rights globally documents.un.org/doc/undoc/lt...

Ireland's Defamation (Amendment) Bill fails to protect public interest speech - Index on Censorship 29 organisations call on the Seanad to take action over anti-SLAPP measures, calling it a missed opportunity to protect freedom of expression

Ireland's new defamation law does not provide enough anti-SLAPP safeguards - Blueprint and 28 other organisatons have signed the open letter www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/irel...

German Government Unveils Draft Anti-SLAPP Legislation: Progress with Room for Improvement — Blueprint for Free Speech Draft law will allow third parties to intervene in potential SLAPP cases, but there are other weaknesses in the legislation

Germany unveils long-awaited Anti-SLAPP law www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/german-government-unveils-draft-anti-slapp-legislation-progress-with-room-for-improvement

OECD urges Switzerland to protect private sector whistleblowers and fine companies convicted of foreign bribery www.oecd.org/en/about/new...

Whistleblowing, artistic freedom: protecting the public interest - Whistleblowing International Network We are a coalition of whistleblower protection, anti-corruption, transparency, human rights and public policy, and independent media organisations from Europe and around the world.  We are writing in…

Whistleblowing, artistic freedom: protecting the public interest - Icelandic artist under fire for creative work around whistleblower case whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/...

Rise of the AI Whistleblowers: How Insiders are Shaping the Future of Technology jenniejohnson.com/bestjobs/ris...

Critical Voices in Germany Are Growing Louder Despite Attempts at Legal Intimidation — Blueprint for Free Speech Marking one year of NoSLAPP.de

It's one year since we launched NoSLAPP.de - critical voices in Germany are growing louder despite continuing legal intimidation www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/crit...

FBI whistleblower claims he tried to get to Musk to warn him he was being targeted by Russia Johnathan Buma, who was arrested in March and is out on bail, claims in new interview that efforts to target Musk were ‘intense’

FBI whistleblower Johnathan Buma tried to warn Elon Musk about "intense" targeting from Russia www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Hungary's government ledges draft NGO law ahead of elections www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Spyware firm NSO Group ordered to pay $168 million to Meta after exploiting WhatsApp users www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

How to survive a Slapp for EU media Incoming EU laws are helping to shield media from abusive lawsuits, but in the meantime EUobserver gives its top tips on how to survive a Slapp.

Belgian media outlet EU Observer has faced multiple SLAPP cases in the past few years and have some advice about navigating these threats: have your facts straight, give a right of reply and pay attention to journalist morale euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...

IT guy let lover into Deutsche Bank datacenter – lawsuit : What was the plan, showing her his big iron?

IT security whistleblower fired after reporting unauthorised access to Deutsche Bank servers www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/c...

Nazi flags, patient 'sexually assaulted', 'dog poo left at whistleblower's home': Sky News investigates UK's 'worst ambulance service' A series of troubling allegations are made by staff and patients of the South East Coast Ambulance Service - with national health chiefs saying the claims in Sky News' report are "extremely…

Sky news reports on UK regional ambulance service's abuse of whistleblower reporting Nazi sympathies of staff news.sky.com/story/nazi-f...

FCA “deliberately and negligently” broke FOI laws, then sacked the whistleblower, Employment Tribunal told A former manager at the Financial Conduct Authority has alleged that he was fired after blowing the whistle on “a number of matters of serious wrongdoing” relating to the treatment of F…

UK Employment Tribunal hears that financial regulator's whistleblowing process does not work properly mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/03/21/f...

NSO Group lawyer names spyware customers in 2019 WhatsApp hack lawsuit - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. This section contains a selection of key portals curated by our global team.

Lawyer for spyware company NSO Group identifies Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan as customers www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

Tesla whistleblower says Musk wanted to deport her team for raising brake issue Former senior Tesla engineer Cristina Balan has prevailed in a years-long legal battle against Musk, and is now able to speak freely.

Former Tesla engineer Cristina Balan says she was forced to resign for raising safety issues, or risk members of her team being deported from the US electrek.co/2025/04/20/t...

I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

Long-term Google employee Emma Jackson calls for worker action military contracting: "If we don’t act now, we will be conscripted into this administration’s fascist and cruel agenda" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Top Pentagon Adviser Dan Caldwell Put on Leave in Leak Probe Dan Caldwell, who has accompanied Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to meetings with foreign officials, was escorted from the Pentagon.

Trump's White House is clamping down on unauthorised disclosures - Pentagon advisor placed on leave www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

The FT reports on a proposed new UK whistleblowing law - the system really does badly need that shake-up archive.is/fBO4R

Kityo was harassed, threatened, jailed and fired as head of Uganda’s netball federation after she demanded accountability for alleged corruption at the highest levels of government. Unfortunately, that pattern of harrassment continues. Her trial is set for June.

Ugandan whistleblower Sarah Kityo faces jail time on questionable charges — Blueprint for Free Speech Blueprint whistleblowing prize-winner Sarah Kityo faces up to 14 years in jail if convicted in a trial that is set to commence in June

Threat of jail time for Blueprint Africa Whistleblowing Prize-winner Sarah Kityo www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/ugandan-whistleblower-sarah-kityo-faces-jail-time-on-questionable-charges

Fallbesprechung: Recherche zu potentieller Korruption im Landkreis — NO SLAPP Anlaufstelle Wir dokumentieren Fälle, bei denen wir kontaktiert wurden und Anhaltspunkte sehen, die darauf hindeuten, dass es sich nach den Kriterien der EU Richtlinie 2024/1069 sowie den Empfehlungen des…

Alleged corruption in immigration detention - a case study of how SLAPPs are inhibiting investigative reporting in Germany

Meta whistleblower alleges work with China on censorship The whistleblower told US lawmakers the company undermined national security to make billions in China.

Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US Senate committee that the company worked "hand in glove" with China

Job applicants remain unprotected as whistleblowers Recent court ruling shows job applicants lack whistleblowing protections, leaving many vulnerable to blacklisting risks

UK Court of Appeal rules that British job applicants do not have whistleblower rights, leaving them vulnerable to blacklisting - unlike their EU counterparts

UK’s Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Station Sacked Employee Who Blew Whistle on Environmental Claims | Novara Media The head of public affairs at Drax raised concerns about the company’s environmental credentials. It cost her her job, an employment tribunal has heard. Simon Childs reports.

UK’s Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Station Sacked Employee Who Blew Whistle on Environmental Claims

Studie bestätigt: SLAPPs bedrohen demokratische Teilhabe in Deutschland — NO SLAPP Anlaufstelle Die Studie der Otto Brenner Stiftung liefert den wissenschaftlichen Beleg für das, was viele bereits spüren: SLAPPs bedrohen den freien demokratischen Diskurs in Deutschland. Als Anlaufstelle sind…

New study confirms that SLAPPs are a real threat to German democracy