Wikipedia joined the American Civil Liberties Union and a host of others Tuesday in bringing a legal challenge against a National Security Agency surveillance program.
In a 42-page complaint filed in federal court in Maryland, near the NSA’s headquarters, the civil libertarians seeks to stop what they call the “suspicionless seizure and searching of internet traffic by the National Security Agency on U.S. soil.”
According to the complaint, the NSA conducts this so-called “Upstream” surveillance by tapping directly into the “the network of high-capacity cables, switches, and routers that today carry vast numbers of Americans’ communications with each other and with the rest of the world.”
“This kind of dragnet surveillance constitutes a massive invasion of privacy, and it undermines the freedoms of expression and inquiry as well,” ACLU Staff Attorney Patrick Toomey said in a statement.
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