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Wikimedia Foundation Files Suit Against NSA and DOJ

Posted by timothy on from the marked-for-redaction dept.

jrepin sends along the news (excerpted from the Wikimedia Foundation's blog) that Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is filing suit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the United States. The lawsuit challenges the NSA's mass surveillance program, and specifically its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications — frequently referred to as "upstream" surveillance. Our aim in filing this suit is to end this mass surveillance program in order to protect the rights of our users around the world. We are joined by eight other organizations and represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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  1. Re:So this is what they use donations for by facetube · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Counterpoint: when your government is deliberately sabotaging your organization's business-critical infrastructure, attacking your users without constitutional or meaningful judicial oversight, and devaluing your organization's reputation and trademark rights by implying your organization is a willing participant in all of this... you might see it as an existential threat.

  2. Re:So this is what they use donations for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Irony in somebody who effectively is saying privacy shouldn't be allowed posting anonymously?