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Category median

Sovereignty: 3 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Whistleblower Software ApS · whistleblowersoftware.com

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Assumes "audit-proof" and "100% anonymous" are marketing until the evidence says otherwise. Hunts certification claims without certificates, anonymity claims next to analytics scripts, per-report pricing traps and legal-update promises with no named lawyer. Exists to keep the rest of the bench honest.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Skeptic

Reporting channels & reporter experience

How this is scored

The intake side: how a reporter actually submits — web form, anonymous dialog, phone/voice, languages, accessibility — and whether anonymity survives first contact.

0 — A web form that is an email in disguise: no anonymous route, no way to reach the reporter afterwards.

3 — An anonymous form exists but the dialogue ends there — no secured mailbox for follow-up questions, few languages, desktop-only.

5 — Anonymous two-way dialog via a protected mailbox, a usable set of languages, mobile-friendly; voice or phone intake missing or an add-on.

8 — Multiple channels (web, voice message or hotline, QR entry points), broad language coverage with translation support, accessibility considered, and the anonymous dialog is first-class rather than bolted on.

10 — Intake engineered around the frightened reporter: every channel anonymous-capable, dozens of languages, WCAG-conscious, no app install or account required, and the vendor documents how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel itself.

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The Skeptic

Anonymous/confidential intake with two-way follow-up is claimed, and 80+ system languages plus a TÜV-audited WCAG 2.1 AA certificate are real paper — but there is no voice, phone or QR intake channel anywhere in the evidence, and the only IP statement on file retains IP addresses up to 14 months with nothing documenting that the reporting channel itself is log-free. Good dialog; unproven channel anonymity. 1 4 5

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Case management & deadline discipline

How this is scored

The case worker's side: triage, statutory deadlines (7-day acknowledgment, 3-month feedback), role separation, audit-proof documentation.

0 — Reports land in an inbox; deadlines, roles and history live in a spreadsheet next door.

3 — A case list with status fields, but deadlines are manual, permissions are all-or-nothing, and the record of who did what is thin.

5 — Deadline tracking with reminders for the statutory clocks, case notes and attachments, basic role separation between case handlers; reporting on the caseload is limited.

8 — Automated statutory clocks, conflict-of-interest handling (excluding implicated case handlers), complete tamper-evident case history, retention and deletion rules applied per case, and management reporting.

10 — A case system an external investigator can rely on: enforced workflows, full audit trail, legally aware retention/deletion automation, evidence handling, and statistics that survive a regulator's questions.

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The Skeptic

Case-level and category-level access control and a 4-eye principle are genuinely granular permissions, better than all-or-nothing — but 'Advanced case management' is a label, not a feature list: no statutory 7-day/3-month clocks, no conflict-of-interest exclusion of implicated handlers, no tamper-evident history, no retention automation and no caseload reporting appear anywhere in evidence. 1 4 6

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Legal compliance alignment

How this is scored

How specifically the product implements EU Directive 2019/1937 and national transpositions (HinSchG et al.) — not whether the marketing mentions them.

0 — Generic feedback software wearing a whistleblowing label; no reference to the legal obligations it claims to satisfy.

3 — The directive is invoked in marketing but the mapping is vague; deadline rules, documentation duties and retention periods are the customer's problem.

5 — The statutory duties are implemented as product features — acknowledgment and feedback clocks, documentation, deletion after the retention period — for at least one national law, with guidance for the rest.

8 — Multiple national transpositions supported with their differing details, legal templates and process guidance maintained by named counsel or documented review, and updates when the law moves.

10 — The product is a legal instrument: per-country rule sets kept current, documented legal review, guidance for edge cases (group-wide channels, external ombudsman setups), and the vendor shows its homework in public.

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The Skeptic

The security page name-drops the directive — mistyped as '2019/19378' — alongside SOX 301, FCA, the German Corporate Governance Code and Loi Sapin II, which is law-collecting, not implementation; no acknowledgment/feedback deadline features, no national transposition details (HinSchG, Danish act), no named counsel and no legal-update commitment exist in the evidence. 'Helps comply with EU whistleblowing laws' is exactly the vague mapping rubric level 3 describes. 3 4

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Security & anonymity assurance

How this is scored

Whether the confidentiality promise is engineered and evidenced: encryption, metadata handling, penetration tests, certifications.

0 — Security is a paragraph of adjectives; no certificates, no test reports, no statement on metadata.

3 — TLS and encryption at rest asserted, but nothing audited: no ISO 27001 or equivalent, no published pentest, silence on IP and metadata logging.

5 — A current ISO 27001 (or equivalent) certificate for vendor or hosting, end-to-end encryption of report content claimed with some technical detail, an explicit no-IP-logging statement.

8 — Certified ISMS covering the product, regular third-party penetration tests attested, documented end-to-end encryption architecture, metadata minimization explained, security contact and disclosure policy published.

10 — Assurance a hostile auditor accepts: current certificates with visible scope, recurring pentest summaries public, cryptographic architecture documented, anonymity analysed against the operator itself — the vendor can answer "how would you unmask a reporter?" with "we cannot, and here is why".

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The Skeptic

Unusually real certification trail — ISO/IEC 27001:2022 by Intertek, annual ISAE 3000 Type 2 by Beierholm, Truesec pentests in 2023 and 2024, E2EE with a key-holder claim — but no pentest summaries are published, there is no security contact or disclosure policy, no metadata-minimization statement, and a 14-month IP retention clause sits next to the anonymity pitch, with SMS offered as the example MFA. Certified, yes; auditor-hostile, no. 1 4 5

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Group & multi-entity capability

How this is scored

Whether one contract can serve a corporate group: separate channels per legal entity, central oversight, ombudsman access, white-labeling.

0 — One company, one channel; a group buys and administers N separate instances.

3 — Multiple channels under one account, but no separation of case access per entity and no consolidated view.

5 — Per-entity channels with separated case handlers and a group-level overview; branding per entity is basic; external counsel access possible.

8 — Real multi-tenant group structure: per-entity channels, languages and branding, delegated administration, external ombudsman roles, group reporting that respects entity boundaries.

10 — Group compliance as architecture: hundreds of entities manageable centrally, per-country legal rule assignment per entity, white-label reporting pages, and access separation strong enough to satisfy each subsidiary's works council.

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The Skeptic

'Unlimited channels, users' plus case-level access separation buys multiple channels with fine-grained permissions, but nothing evidences per-legal-entity channel structure, a consolidated group view, delegated administration, external ombudsman roles or per-entity branding. A group can technically share one account; whether that satisfies each subsidiary's separation demands is undemonstrated. 1 4

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where reports about people actually live and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. In this category the data is by definition the most sensitive a company holds.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for whistleblowing data.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors for report content and metadata, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The Skeptic

Danish controller, all data and backups on AWS in Frankfurt with the region named, EEA-only intra-group transfers — but AWS is a US-parent critical processor, the subprocessor list is request-only rather than published (with Google Analytics sitting in the disclosed categories), and no DPA or TOMs appear in the evidence. That is the anchor-5 profile exactly: EU hosting default with non-EU jurisdictional reach on the critical processor. 1 4 5

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether an obligated company can compute the real invoice — per entity, per employee band, per year — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but the tiers most obligated companies need are unpriced, or the maths is obscured by employee bands, per-report fees or mandatory setup charges.

5 — Most tiers carry real numbers with billing period and VAT treatment stated, but at least one commonly needed capability — extra entities, extra languages, phone intake — hides in an unpriced add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with employee-band boundaries, entity rules and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: every tier, band, add-on and renewal rule public, so the invoice for a 60-employee company and a 5-entity group is a two-minute exercise.

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The Skeptic

Two plans carry real numbers with explicit employee-band boundaries and an asterisked 'billed annually' disclosure — the monthly-figure-for-annual-commitment optics are at least admitted. But VAT treatment is silent, setup fees are silent, everything above 999 employees is 'Contact sales', and per-entity terms rest on nothing more than a homepage 'unlimited channels' claim. 1 6

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European sovereignty — proven facts

3 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 4 Report an error
Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 4 Report an error

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Sources (6)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Product homepage whistleblowersoftware.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 About page whistleblowersoftware.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Parent brand Formalize about page formalize.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security page whistleblowersoftware.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Privacy policy whistleblowersoftware.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Pricing page whistleblowersoftware.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →