[Wikimedia-l] PRISM

[Luis Villa]

Hi, all-

For your information, we have not been approached to participate in
PRISM, and we have never received or honored an NSA or FISA subpoena
or order.  If we were to be approached in the future, we would reject
participation in any PRISM-type program to the maximum extent possible
and challenge in court any such demand, since this sort of program, as
described in the press, contradicts our core values of a free Internet
and open, neutral access to knowledge.

We should have a blog post up within the next few days to discuss
PRISM and our values in more detail; we will pass that along here when
it is posted.

Thanks-
Luis, Geoff, and Stephen

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a simple question with a potentially very complicated answer.....
>
> What, if any, are the implications of the PRISM scandal for Wikimedia?
> Does the fact that our servers are based in the US now compromise our
> mission either in a technical, privacy or an ethical sense?
>
>
> - Liam / Wittylama
>
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