Wikipedia finally sued NSA for violation of the Constitution

WikipediaThe Wikimedia Foundation,The National Security Agency (NSA)The lawsuit filed a lawsuit against the act of intercepting interception as being an infringement of privacy rights and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution.

Wikimedia_v2c_nsa _ - _ complaint.pdf
(PDF file)https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/wikimedia_v2c_nsa_-_complaint.pdf

Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance «Wikimedia blog
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/

NSA sued by Wikimedia, rights groups over mass surveillance | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/10/us-usa-nsa-wikipedia-idUSKBN0M60YA20150310

With NSAUnited States Department of Justice (DOJ)The constitutional violation appealed the Wikimedia Foundation andAmerican Human Rights Association (ACLU)Eight groups, including. According to the complaint filed in the NSA-based federal court of Maryland, the NSA "PRISM"In addition to a method of fraudulently obtaining user's personal information from IT companies such as Apple and Google, which is called" comprehensive information gathering method "Upstream collection(Upstream monitoring)"We insist on interception of Internet users' communication by a method called so that these acts infringe the right of privacy guaranteed by the Constitution and freedom of expression.

What is the secret system "PRISM" that can peep directly at personal information on servers such as Google, Apple, Yahoo! and others? - GIGAZINE


In the upstream monitoring, interception of communication of an upstream line, which is the main line, among the Internet lines established around the world, allows the NSA to upstream from the circumstances that the main line of the Internet passes through the United States By surveillance, it is possible to monitor communication not only in the United States but also all over the world.

The Wikimedia Foundation provides comprehensive communication monitoring by the NSA not only to infringe privacy rights associated with acquiring personal information,Atrophic effectIt inflicts freedom of expression by causing it, and claims that information sharing on the Internet is hindered. For example,Arab SpringIn connection with the massive anti-government demonstration that occurred in the Arab countries since 2010, known as the US government was enacted in 2008Foreign information monitoring lawUnder the agreement, we have a contract to conduct closer information exchange with Egypt. In other words, the information on the Internet users in Egypt is inherent in NSA, and under such circumstances it is feared that by editing Wikipedia it will be subject to various disadvantages placed in the subjects of monitoring by government related organizations, It is possible that users may hesitate to edit.

And it is not a problem limited to Internet users in the US · Egypt, but the NSA intercepting communications around the world by upstream surveillance is not a problem limited to Internet users of the United States and Egypt, Eight organizations including Wikimedia claim that freedom of expression of users is infringed by NSA.


Wikimedia Foundation'sLaila · Tretykov"We are announcing a statement that the fundamental democracy is being threatened by the NSA that stretches his toes at the very bottom of the Internet." On the other hand, the NSA, who was asked for comment on Reiters' communication on this case, has not answered anything.