Wikipedia to file lawsuit challenging mass surveillance by NSA

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Wikipedia to file lawsuit challenging mass surveillance by NSA

Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:13am EDT

(Reuters) - Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, challenging the government's mass surveillance program.

The lawsuit, to be filed on Tuesday, alleges that the NSA's mass surveillance of Internet traffic in the United States — often called Upstream surveillance — violates the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech and association, and the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.

The NSA's Upstream surveillance program captures communications with "non-U.S. persons" in order to acquire foreign intelligence information.

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"Wikipedia is founded on the freedoms of expression, inquiry, and information. By violating our users' privacy, the NSA is threatening the intellectual freedom that is central to people's ability to create and understand knowledge."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/10/us-usa-nsa-wikipedia-idUSKBN0M60YA20150310

[FarPoint]

1. I believe they have a good case.

Maybe the tune is changing back to protecting our First Amendment. The post 911 hysteria was devastating.