Wikileaks - the topic can not be killed. This is by no means only a political but also an economic topic - and as such it is of particular interest to the personnel departments of companies.

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War for wiki leaks

This week, ARD ran this 45-minute discussion “world power WikiLeaks? War on the Net”, which is now also available on vimeo (see video above). Yesterday took place in the HumboldtUniversity in Berlin that SPIEGEL-Forum with the topic “Public enemy Wikileaks - How Julian Assange challenges politics and the media” took place, which Markus Beckedahl accompanied live blogging.

Computer scientist Daniel Domscheidt-Berg, who helped set up and then left Wikileaks, is releasing his tell-all book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time at the World's Most Dangerous Website this week Welt” out that Spiegel Online extensively criticized.

Who takes responsibility?

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On Tuesday I have Domscheidt mountain experienced personally at an event organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, In addition to the linked text, there is also a recording of the event at You Tube.

Jochen Mai and Klaus Eck, for example, raised the question of how Companys can respond to employee disloyalty. There is also another question - and that doesn't just apply to Wikileaks: who takes responsibility if something goes wrong?

Openleaks: mailbox concept without responsibility

Domscheidt-BergsConcept For the new leaking platform Openleaks, which he plans to offer shortly, I did not find it conclusive: unlike Wikileaks, it should never publish a leak on Openleaks itself.

Rather, the whistleblowers can do it themselves decide, which is connected to Openleaks editorial team, Organization or person the material is to be played. Responsibility for editing and publishing then lies entirely with the editors - and therefore they also have to bear the necessary legal consequences.

One is the stupid!

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Openleaks, on the other hand, is completely out of responsibility - pointing out that one person alone can not decide where personal rights would be violated and what information will be published - and which not. That's true on the one hand, on the other hand, but on the other hand, a little cowardly and comfortable.

The heated discussions that then arose on exactly this point shows how explosive the question of who is responsible for such a topic is. Or to put it bluntly: nobody wants it to have been in the end. But, and that's that Problem in the whole thing: someone has to take on the ugly task.

A size smaller

By the way, the whole is also a few numbers smaller: The employer evaluation platform kununu is ultimately nothing more than a small Whistelblower platform: for if employers are judged objectively and differentiated, the employees do nothing but disclose business secrets.

One difference may be that the statements of the Employees not supported by documents here. That is exactly the point of criticism that is leveled at kununu often enough that in principle everyone takes revenge on his Executive to practice without being able to check it extensively - even if kununu promises checks.

Whistelblowing for openness and transparency

I find them Idea, that employees can say openly what they think of their employer (which is rare enough anyway!) is really good. I already wrote that yesterday. And I think it's good that employees-to-be also get such an insight into potential companies.

Sure, there is a risk of wild company bashing, fake positive (from the company) as well as negative (e.g. from the competition) reviews, because you can't even check whether an employee is really working there. But there is also a real opportunity for more transparency and openness, which companies are forced to do.

Knackpunkt Anonymity

However, and there you are fast back at Wikileaks, the anonymity of such rating platforms is of course a major sticking point: kununu guarantees full anonymity, but then still wants it eMailAddress.

The participation in kununu is absolutely anonymous and the protection of your data is one of our highest principles! All reviews appear only with a date on. The registration data serve only the prevention of misuse or the (voluntarily chosen) sending of a newsletter as well as the access to the own evaluation portal.

When I look at what's going on at Wikileaks and Openleaks to give users full anonymity without traceability, I'm a little scared - and I'm not really a privacy fanatic. I'm just thinking of how easy Stefan Niggemeier was to identify Konstantin Neven Dumont as an anonymous commentator.

Questions, questions

In view of this, the protection that kununu offers its users seems a little poor. Certainly it's not as bad as showing your anger at Facebook or Twitter made public air – but…. Maybe someone would like to enlighten me about how it is about anonymity and the Privacy is really ordered?


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