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Wikimedia Foundation Suit Over Mass Online Surveillance Tossed

Posted on September 16, 2021June 24, 2025 by Dissent

Andrea Vittorio reports:

The nonprofit behind Wikipedia can’t challenge a U.S. national security program for tracking communications online in search of foreign intelligence because the legal tussle risks revealing state secrets, a federal appeals court ruled.

Allowing the lawsuit to continue “would unjustifiably risk the disclosure of privileged information,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

Read more on Bloomberg Law.

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