https is generaly increasing privacy of the users. http can be "listen" by
anyone. It is like using walkie-talkie - anyone with radio-scanner can
listen :-)
2015-03-10 13:26 GMT+01:00 Comet styles <cometstyles(a)gmail.com>om>:
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(a)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(a)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.ht…
> >
> 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(a)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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> mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation and for
legal/ethical
> reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or
serve as a lawyer for,
> community
> members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For
more
on what
this means, please see our legal disclaimer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.*
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Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego
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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
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