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Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2018-02-15 14:51:12
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The Tor Project [torproject.org] reports that the Italian Anti-Corruption Authority will now be using Tor as part of its method of collecting tips anonymously.

To comply with these standards, the Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC), an administrative watchdog, just launched their national online whistleblowing platform using onion services, giving whistleblowers who come forward a secure way to report illegal activity while protecting their identities. Most anti-corruption whistleblowers first speak out anonymously, and only when they know that their concerns are being addressed do they disclose their identities, as reported by Transparency International Italy, an organization advocating uses of Tor in the fight against corruption since 2014.

ANAC software is based on a customized version of GlobaLeaks, a whistleblowing platform by the Hermes Center that integrates Tor natively. GlobaLeaks is expected to be redistributed to all Italian public agencies (~20.000 in total) to comply with Law 179/2017 and in line with the country’s recent strategic commitment to open-source software and the reuse of code.

More details are available in Italian [anticorruzione.it].

Source : Italian Anti-Corruption Authority (ANAC) Adopts Onion Services [torproject.org]


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