Wikipedia sue the surveillance NSA

Wikipedia sue the surveillance NSA.

Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that maintains the online encyclopedia Wikipedia organization file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the Department of Justice United States and challenging program of massive government surveillance. The lawsuit, expected to be filed Tuesday alleges that mass surveillance service agency Internet traffic in the United States also called Upstream- surveillance violates the First Amendment of the Constitution, which protects freedom of the press and association, and the fourth, which goes against searches and seizures unacceptable. The Upstream program of the National Security Agency (NSA, for its acronym in English) captures communications with "non-US persons" in order to obtain foreign intelligence information. "When you hit the backbone of the Internet, the NSA is pushing the backbone of democracy," said Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Lila Tretikov, in a posting on its website. "Wikipedia is based on freedom of expression, research and information. By violating the privacy of users, the NSA is threatening intellectual freedom, which is the core value to create and understand knowledge," he added. Current practices of NSA exceed the authority granted to him in 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Wikimedia said. "We are asking the court to order an end to the NSA surveillance of internet traffic," wrote the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, in an opinion piece in the New York Times. Wikimedia and eight other organizations that have filed the lawsuit, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, will be represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.