The Wikimedia Foundation has taken up a case against mass surveillance, filing a lawsuit alongside several other groups that challenges the National Security Agency’s ongoing collection of citizen communications.
According to court documents, the suit, which includes nine co-plaintiffs, targets the NSA and the Department of Justice for what it alleges is the “suspicion-less” collection of information by those entities on U.S. soil. The foundation, the nonprofit that operates online encyclopedia Wikipedia, specifically takes issue with the use of upstream surveillance, which captures a wide variety of Internet communications prior to use.
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