Wikimedia joins forces with others to sue NSA, DOJ over mass surveillance

[anuseems]

The Wikimedia Foundation on Tuesday joined with other rights groups to file suit against the US National Security Agency's spying program - in particular, its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications, commonly referred to as upstream surveillance.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is representing the rights groups, which also include The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, Pen American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and Washington Office on Latin America.

Wikimedia said in a post that the aim of the suit is to protect its users' privacy rights.

Besides the NSA, the complaint also names the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and US Attorney General Eric Holder as defendants.

Wikimedia said that the NSA's pervasive surveillance challenges its users' privacy, which in turn thwarts Wikimedia's core mission of enabling "inquiry, dialogue, and creation" in order to "[empower] everyone to share in the sum of all human knowledge."

more @ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/44/Wikimedia_v._NSA_Complaint.pdf

[212eta]

Hurray... :towel:

[go0gle]

finally someone who has the guts to stand up against this spy organizations