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When the Law Silences Survivors: SLAPPs and gender-based violence — Blueprint for Free Speech Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are increasingly being targeted by civil legal action after speaking out

Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are increasingly being targeted with SLAPP suits www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/when-the-law-silences-survivors-slapps-and-gender-based-violence

The legal system is being weaponised to silence survivors of sexual and gender-based violence - Index on Censorship Index has published a new report showing how survivors are facing abusive strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs)

Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are being silenced by the very people accused of committing the abuse. Read the new report from CASE member @IndexCensorship on how abusive legal actions in the UK & Ireland are silencing those who speak out
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/the-...

Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

As UN Rapporteur warns about shrinking space for civil society, US Treasury Secretary alludes to coming clampdown on non profits talkingpointsmemo.com/news/big-tal...

UN Rapporteur outlines critical threats to rights of assembly and association docs.un.org/en/A/80/219

Chat Control is "like a malware on your device" – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats Encrypted messaging app, Signal, said it could leave Europe instead of weakening encryption if the bill were to pass

Signal threatens to stop offering services in the EU if encryption bypass law is approved www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Israel/OPT: Microsoft terminates Israeli military's access to technology used to operate mass surveillance system in Gaza & the West Bank - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Significant step forward for corporate accountability as Microsoft withdraws support for mass surveillance in Palestine www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

US whistleblowers say they were fired for raising fair housing concerns Hud attorneys who said fighting discrimination not a Trump priority call dismissals ‘as blatant as can be’

US whistleblowers say they were fired for raising abandonment of anti-discrimination action in housing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Two Steps Forward and One Step Back – the Final Outcome for Whistleblowing Reform in the Employment Rights Bill - Protect - Speak up stop harm On the afternoon on Monday 15th September the government voted to overturn an amendment in the Employment Rights Bill to strengthen protections for whistleblowers. The amendment – which had been…

UK Government rejects attempt to legally oblige companies to investigate whistleblower reports, despite wide cross-party support protect-advice.org.uk/two-steps-fo...

Instagram still poses risk to children despite new safety tools, says Meta whistleblower Meta rejects review findings, which claim two-thirds of new features designed to protect young people are ‘woefully ineffective’

Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar says two thirds of Instagram's new safety tools are useless for protecting children www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Chinese Covid whistleblower Zhang Zhang sentenced to four additional years in prison www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Takeaways from AP's investigation into how US tech companies enabled China's digital police state An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously…

How US tech companies built the Chinese surveillance state apnews.com/article/chin...

Researchers find spyware on phones belonging to Kenyan filmmakers FlexiSPY, which is commercially available, can be more easily detected than far more expensive mercenary spyware available to nation states but has similar capabilities once installed, said John…

Kenyan government caught installing spyware on filmmakers' phones therecord.media/researchers-...

Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Meta Raises Urgent Questions About User Safety and Corporate Accountability — Blueprint for Free Speech If Baig’s claims are substantiated, they suggest that WhatsApp has been deeply compromised—not by external hackers, but by internal negligence.

Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Meta Raises Urgent Questions About User Safety and Corporate Accountability www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/whis...

Attempt to Overturn Australian SLAPP Ruling Fails

Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin The Basque Country is implementing Quantus Skin in its health clinics after an investment of 1.6 million euros. Specialists criticise the artificial intelligence developed by the Asisa subsidiary due…

Basque Government's new AI cancer-detection tool is unreliable and discriminatory, says researchers civio.es/sanidad/2025...

Technoviolence — Disruption Network Lab Confronting Systematic Injustice September 19–21 2025

Terry Albury - former FBI agent and whistleblower, prosecuted under the US Espionage Act after his disclosures were featured in the Intercept - will be speaking at Disruption Labs' next conference, 20 September in Berlin @disruptberlin www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence

Australian tax whistlebloer Richard Boyle escapes prison — Blueprint for Free Speech After nearly eight years of legal limbo, tax whistleblower Richard Boyle has been spared convictions and a prison sentence.

ATO whistleblower escapes prison sentence in long-running legal case www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/australian-tax-whistlebloer-richard-boyle-escapes-prison

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...