Hoi,
I applaud this action. Great.
The next step is making it not so easy for the NSA to harvest their ill
gotten gains. We could and should share our data from cache servers that
are much closer to our users ie outside the USA. The benefit would not be
so much in frustrating the NSA but more in providing our readers, even our
editors with a better service. So far the argument NOT to do is that
everything in the USA was peachy.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 10 March 2015 at 08:53, Michelle Paulson <mpaul...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I’m writing to let you know that today the Wikimedia Foundation[1] is
> filing suit against the National Security Agency
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency>, the Department
> of
> Justice <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice
> >,
> and the U.S. Attorney General
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General>[2] in order
> to challenge certain mass surveillance practices carried out by the U.S.
> government. We believe these practices are impinging the freedom to learn,
> inquire, and explore on Wikimedia sites.
>
> Since the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures, we’ve heard concerns from the
> community about privacy on Wikipedia. This lawsuit is a step towards
> addressing the community's justified concerns. We believe that the
> surveillance methods being employed by the NSA under the authority of the
> FISA
> Amendments Act
> <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008
> >
> negatively impact our users' ability and willingness to participate in our
> projects. Today, we fight back.
>
> An op-ed
> <
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.html?_r=0
> >
> by Lila and Jimmy about the lawsuit, and Wikimedia's stance on government
> surveillance, appeared in The New York Times this morning. Additionally, we
> just published a blog post
> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/> with more
> information about the suit. (The post will also up on Meta for
> translation).
>
> Best,
>
>
> Michelle Paulson
>
> Senior Legal Counsel
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> mpaul...@wikimedia.org
>
> [1] We are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union> (ACLU).
> Other plaintiffs include The National Association of Criminal Defense
> Lawyers <http://www.nacdl.org/>, Human Rights Watch
> <http://www.hrw.org/>, Amnesty
> International USA <http://www.amnestyusa.org/>, Pen American Center
> <https://www.pen.org/>, Global Fund for Women
> <http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/>, The Nation Magazine
> <http://www.thenation.com/>, The Rutherford Institute
> <https://www.rutherford.org/>, and Washington Office on Latin America
> <http://www.wola.org/>.
>
> [2] Other named defendants include: Michael Rogers
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Rogers>, in his official
> capacity
> as Director of the National Security Agency
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_National_Security_Agency>
> and Chief of the Central Security Service; Office of the Director of
> National Intelligence
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence>; James
> Clapper <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Clapper>, in his official
> capacity as Director of National Intelligence; and Eric Holder
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder>, in his official capacity
> as Attorney
> General <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General> of
> the United States.
>
>
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