Hi everyone,
Today, the United States’ Supreme Court denied our petition to review the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of internet communications and activities, marking the end of our case Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_v._NSA. While this decision is a blow to privacy and freedom of expression online, we don’t plan to let it hinder our advocacy efforts. We invite you to read our Diff post https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/21/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-wikimedia-foundations-challenge-to-nsa-mass-surveillance/ about this decision and our plans to continue to push to protect free knowledge on Wikimedia projects and beyond.
If you wish to share the news, you can use this social media toolkit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fuKz3Q9BKTrQygp4ef-sDYCkmYmNBuq93qdqMILMd4E/ .
Best,
Jim
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 10:53 AM James Buatti jbuatti@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
We invite you to take a look at our Diff post https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/08/26/wikimedia-foundation-aclu-and-knight-institute-urge-u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-to-nsas-mass-surveillance/ about a recent update in our lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency, the agency responsible for a number of mass surveillance practices that first came to light in 2013 https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2013/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-letter-transparency-nsa-prism/. As we describe in the post, we first filed https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.html this case in 2015 to protect the privacy and free expression rights of Wikimedia users worldwide. In the coming months, we will share more about this case, its implications, and how you can get involved.
Best,
Jim Buatti on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Affairs and Global Advocacy Teams
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James Buatti (he/him)
Senior Manager, Legal
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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