Tag Archives: Surveillance

The NSA surveillance methods that have thus far been motivated as being authorized through the Patriot Act today got a big blow from a U.S. Federal Appeals Court. The court decided that the NSA surveillance of phone records and metadata is unlawful and that Congress should make changes to the surveillance …

Wikipedia and implicitly, Wikimedia Foundation sued the NSA (National Security Agency) and the U.S. Department of Justice, saying that these two government agencies are pursuing non-democratic ways in which they can gather intelligence on foreign nations and American citizens. Wikimedia Foundation executive director Lila Tretujiv describes perfectly well what the …