Kudos to the Legal Team on this important case!
-greg aka varnent
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:01 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <vp2007(a)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(a)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(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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> >> community
> >> members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.
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