Once the submission is performed the data is encrypted and made available only to configured recipients. The platform does not store anything permanently. Information and files that are submitted are deleted as soon as possible due to a strictdata retention policy.[10][11]
The process is generally improved by suggesting sources and recipients to useQubes OS orTails operating systems while connecting to the platform.[citation needed]
By 2023, GlobaLeaks has been internationalized in over 90 languages and implemented by several thousands of projects and initiatives. The vast range of adopters include independent media, activists, media agencies, and corporations.
In 2013,Free Press Unlimited (FPU),[12] a Netherlands-based non-profit organization, created Publeaks NL,[13][14] a foundation that counts around 20 of the country's biggest media organizations among its members that uses the platform to perform investigative journalism under a same umbrella project.
FPU has replicated this model in other countries, creating MéxicoLeaks,[15] IndonesiaLeaks,[16] Leaks.ng[17] and Kenekanko[18] inMexico,Indonesia,Nigeria andMali respectively. MexicoLeaks aimed at revealing information for the public interest in Mexico, and was awarded the FRIDA award in 2016.[19] Another project, Africaleaks, was discontinued.[20]
Considered one of the most successful GlobaLeaks projects,WildLeaks is the world's first whistleblower initiative dedicated to wildlife and forest crime funded and managed by theElephant Action League (EAL) which reported and investigated various crimes. One of the investigations was highlighted in the award-winning Netflix documentaryThe Ivory Game.[24][25][26]
In 2017,Xnet, an activist project which has been working on and for networked democracy and digital rights since 2008, launched the first public Anti-Corruption Complaint Box using anonymity protection technology like Tor and GlobaLeaks ("Bústia Ètica" in Catalan) in theBarcelona City Hall, making it the first municipal government to enable citizens to send information privately.[30]
In 2018, theItalian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC), an administrative watchdog, launched their national online whistleblowing platform using GlobaLeaks and onion services.[31]
Since 2020, the software is now recommended byTransparency International among the available solutions that could be used to implement whistleblowing systems for anti-corruption purposes.[32]
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