Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Wikimedia’s lawsuit against the NSA is back

The ACLU and the Wikimedia Foundation can move forward with an internet surveillance lawsuit against the NSA and Department of Justice, an appeals court has ruled. The ruling, published today, reverses a decision made back in October 2015 by a lower court. That ruling declared that the Wikimedia Foundation, along with several other organizations named in the lawsuit, hadn’t reasonably established that the NSA was collecting their data. But appeals judges found that Wikimedia had made a strong logical case for its claim, reviving the complaint.

Wikimedia’s case concerns internet surveillance under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, or more specifically, “upstream” interception of data from internet backbone cables. The ACLU argued...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15680830/wikimedia-aclu-nsa-doj-lawsuit-appeals-court-reverse

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/wikimedias-lawsuit-against-nsa-is-back.html

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