Complete anonymity is achieved by never asking any personally identifiable information from users. Instead, a random ID is used to communicate with whistleblowers. Using this ID, employees and outsiders can report unethical behaviour to companies through texts messages, images, videos, and other files.
No personally identifiable information, like IP addresses, IMEI numbers, or mobile numbers are recorded or reported by the app.
Noteworthy companies using the app are Liquid Telecom, EOH, KPMG, Weylands, Arcelor Mittal, Liquid Telecom, Grindrod, Rubicon, and Distell. They have had numerous successes in uncovering fraud and corruption which saved companies’ millions.
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And people know about it, but they are rightly scared to speak out. This app is one way but I suppose it needs to be adopted. We’ve just had bad stories publiscised this weekend about whistleblowers about our Sasol company polluting rivers etc and the whistleblower suffered. That should just not happen.
I suppose you mean this news item: https://mg.co.za/environment/2021-03-27-its-absolutely-terrifying-to-be-a-whistleblower-in-sasol/
Yes that is the (most recent) one.
“I think whistleblowers are punished for doing good in a system that says it needs them but does not act that way,” says Dr Victor Munnik, a research associate at the society, work and politics institute at Wits University, who wrote about Van Eeden in his 2012 PhD thesis.
Yes true, the pity is that complaints / issues etc like taht SHOULD be able to be handled within institutions themselves it they were mature and ethical enought… but then usally you should not even have an issue with the institution.