2015-03-10 8:53 GMT+01:00 Michelle Paulson <mpaul...@wikimedia.org>: > 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). >
Curious question, by the way: how controversial would you expect this move to be domestically? From e.g. a Swedish perspective, the NSA is an intelligence agency of a foreign power and the other mentioned organizations are either largely uncontroversial and seen in a positive light (Amnesty, PEN, HRW) or unknown, but will it affect how the WMF is seen in the US? //Johan Jönsson -- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
