NSA Sued For Mass Surveillance Of Internet
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Wikipedia's parent group, Wikimedia Foundation, is suing the US National Security Agency (NSA) for what it dubs the "suspicionless seizure and searching of internet traffic by the agency on US soil".
The legal action has been filed by Wikimedia and eight other groups against the NSA and the Department of Justice (DoJ), in a federal court in Maryland, where the spy agency is based.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said that Wikimedia is filing the suit on behalf of Wikipedia's readers and editors everywhere.
"Surveillance erodes the original promise of the internet: an open space for collaboration and experimentation, and a place free from fear," he said.
In its official complaint, Wikimedia said that the NSA conducts its "upstream" surveillance by tapping directly into the internet backbone inside the US.
It described this backbone as "the network of high-capacity cables, switches, and routers that today carry vast numbers of Americans' communications with each other and with the rest of the world".
By intercepting traffic, the NSA is seizing Americans' communications en masse while they are in transit, said Wikimedia, and this surveillance "exceeds the scope of the authority that congress provided in the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008 and violates the First and Fourth Amendments".
In a blog post, the foundation's legal counsel said that the FAA authorises the collection of these communications if they fall into the broad category of "foreign intelligence information", which includes any data that could be construed as relating to national security or foreign affairs.
"The programme casts a vast net, and as a result, captures communications that are not connected to any target', or may be entirely domestic. This includes communications by our users and staff," the organisation added.
Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said that "by tapping the backbone of the internet, the NSA is straining the backbone of democracy".
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NSA sued by Wikipedia parent group over mass surveillance
March 11, 2015
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The Wikimedia Foundation, owners and operators of the popular crowd-edited reference website Wikipedia, has filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency (NSA) in response to the organizations surveillance program.
According to BBC News, the lawsuit also names the US Department of Justice and accuses the two groups of violating the Constitutions right to free speech, as well as laws protecting citizens of the United States from unreasonable search and seizure.
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In a blog entry posted Tuesday, Wikimedias Michelle Paulson and Geoff Brigham wrote that the lawsuit challenges the NSAs 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.
The Foundation has been joined by eight other organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, The Global Fund for Women, and The Rutherford Institute and the Washington Office on Latin America. Their case will be handled by attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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Were filing suit today on behalf of our readers and editors everywhere, said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. Surveillance erodes the original promise of the internet: an open space for collaboration and experimentation, and a place free from fear.
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