US Supreme Court docket Snubs Wikipedia Bid To Problem NSA’s On-line Surveillance

Wikimedia Basis challenged the legality of the NSA’s surveillance in 2015. (Representational)

Washington:

The US Supreme Court docket in the present day declined to listen to a bid by the operator of the favored Wikipedia web encyclopedia to resurrect its lawsuit towards the Nationwide Safety Company difficult mass on-line surveillance.

Turning away the Wikimedia Basis’s enchantment, the justices left in place a decrease court docket’s dismissal of the lawsuit based mostly on the federal government’s assertion of what’s referred to as the state secrets and techniques privilege, a authorized doctrine that may shut down litigation if disclosure of sure info would injury US nationwide safety.

Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, Wikimedia Basis sued in 2015 difficult the legality of the NSA’s “Upstream” surveillance of international targets by the “suspicionless” assortment and looking out of web site visitors on knowledge transmission traces flowing into and out of the US.
 

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