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Wikimedias nya sida om kampen mot NSA:s massövervakning: Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA

Presenterades på Wikimedias blogg: Announcing a new informational resource on Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA and government surveillance

Vanliga frågor: Wikimedia Foundation v. National Security Agency/FAQ

Wikipedia: Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA

Andra sidor om Wikimedia mot NSA:

EFF:
Twenty-four Million Wikipedia Users Can’t Be Wrong: Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance
EFF Urges Appeals Court to Allow Wikimedia and Others to Fight NSA Surveillance

American Civil Liberties Union: Wikimedia v. NSA – Challenge to Upstream Surveillance Under the FISA Amendments Act

The Guardian: Wikimedia joins civil rights groups in lawsuit against NSA internet spying

The Washington Post: Wikipedia is suing the NSA over online spying

Uppdatering: Reply filed in Wikimedia v. NSA appeal

Uppdatering: Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA update: appeal hearing scheduled

Uppdatering: Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA update: Hearing at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Uppdatering: Victory at the Fourth Circuit: Court of Appeals allows Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA to proceed

EFF: Wikimedia’s Constitutional Challenges of NSA Upstream Surveillance Moves Forward

Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA: Why we’re here and where we’re going

Court Challenges to NSA Surveillance: 2017 in Review (EFF)

EFF skrev:Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA
The Wikimedia Foundation scored an enormous victory this year when an appeals court allowed the nonprofit’s challenge to NSA surveillance to move forward, reversing an earlier decision that threw the lawsuit out.

Represented by the ACLU, Wikimedia sued the NSA in 2015 for the use of its “upstream” program, the same program that EFF is suing the NSA over in Jewel v. NSA. Wikimedia argued that the program infringed both the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment.

Originally filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Wikimedia’s lawsuit was thrown out because the court ruled that Wikimedia could not prove it had suffered harm due to NSA surveillance. This ability to prove that a plaintiff was actually wronged by what they allege is called “standing,” and the court ruled Wikimedia—and multiple other plaintiffs—lacked it.

But upon appellate review, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals approved standing for Wikimedia in May 2017. However, the appellate court denied standing for other plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which included Human Rights Watch, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, Amnesty International USA and more.

This victory on a small issue—standing—is an enormous victory in continuing the fight against NSA surveillance.