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For Tech Whistleblowers, There’s Safety in Numbers
- Amber Scorah, a whistleblower, founded Psst in 2024 to help tech industry and government workers share information with extra protections.
- Psst's main offering is a digital safe accessed through an encrypted text box on Psst.org, allowing users to enter their concerns anonymously.
- A unique feature of Psst is its 'information escrow' system, keeping submissions private until similar concerns are shared by others.
- Psst's approach of combining reports from multiple sources protects whistleblowers' identities and encourages sharing of information.
- Only Psst's in-house legal team can access the digital safe, ensuring confidentiality, particularly in countries like the US and UK.
- Psst plans to automate the review process through secure algorithms to identify potential matches while safeguarding contributors' identities.
- Psst involves investigative journalists or publishes accounts based on collected information, sometimes alerting regulators without public disclosure.
- Challenges include lagging regulations in areas like AI safety, where reporting may be in the public interest despite not being illegal.
- Amber Scorah sees Psst as a platform to expose harmful practices in the tech industry, just as she did with her own stories.
- Psst aims to have a sanitizing effect by shedding light on industry issues through whistleblowers' accounts.
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