Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com - @BednarChuck The Wikimedia Foundation, owners and operators of the popular crowd-edited reference website Wikipedia, has filed a lawsuit against the US National Security Agency (NSA) in response to the organization’s surveillance program. According to BBC News, the lawsuit also names the US Department of Justice and accuses the two groups of violating the Constitution’s right to free speech, as well as laws protecting citizens of the United States from unreasonable search and seizure. [STORY: Storing data offshore won't protect it from NSA] In a blog entry posted Tuesday, Wikimedia’s Michelle Paulson and Geoff Brigham wrote that the lawsuit “challenges the NSA’s large-scale search and seizure of internet communications – frequently referred to as ‘upstream’ surveillance. Our aim in filing this suit is to end this mass surveillance program in order to protect the rights of our users around the world.” The Foundation has been joined by eight other organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, The Global Fund for Women, and The Rutherford Institute and the Washington Office on Latin America.
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