I created draft of the article about the case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Wikimedia_v._NSAin English Wikipedia. I'm not sure it's not too soon to move this draft to the main namespace. Please add content and then move it to main ns when you think it's ready.
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:31 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2007@gmail.com wrote:
Greatly done! This is not just news. It is a mark that will be recorded in bold letters in the history of human's quest for knowledge.
-user:ViswaPrabha https://ml.wikipedia.org
On 10 March 2015 at 18:15, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
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@gmail.com:
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
[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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you
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the
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.
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