for an organization taking on the NSA for "spying"..why are we using https? doesn't that show that we are already scared of them and running with our tail between our legs?
On 3/10/15, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
this sounds exactly as a thing we, as a movement, need institutional support of WMF for. Thanks for doing that.
dariusz "pundit"
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Michelle Paulson mpaulson@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_...
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.htm...
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
mpaulson@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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prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl
członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk członek Komitetu Polityki Naukowej MNiSW
Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego autorstwa http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
Recenzje Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml Pacific Standard: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/ Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia The Wikipedian: http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge _______________________________________________ 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-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe