Thursday, March 12, 2015

NSA and Wikipedia

A few posts ago I mentioned that I had “googled” the author of Guantanamo Diary to find out if he were still in prison.  (He is.)

I suggested that searching for his name probably put me on a watch list at NSA.  

On March 10 the New York Times printed an op-ed contribution by the founder of Wikipedia and the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.  They noted that one of the targets of NSA revealed by Edward Snowden was Wikipedia users.  So I really am on a list somewhere.

Wikipedia has filed a lawsuit with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union asking the courts to end NSA’s surveillance of Internet traffic.  


Without privacy there is no freedom of expression.  How did this nation go so far off the track?

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