Judge dismisses Wikimedia case against NSA as ‘hypothetical’
Remember that lawsuit the Wikimedia Foundation filed against the NSA earlier this year? It’s not moving forward: The district judge presiding over the case has dismissed the lawsuit because the plaintiffs’ allegations are based on “suppositions and speculation with no basis in fact.” Specifically, District Judge TS Ellis III takes issue with Wikimedia’s description of how the NSA’s Upstream surveillance program works, which speculates on how the program “must” operate to satisfy the government’s “stated goals,” but provides no factual data to verify said claims.
Source: TechCrunch, ACLU
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