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Wikimedia challenge to secrecy of US government 'Upstream' Internet surveillance probed by appellate judges

By Mike Swift ( March 12, 2021, 23:06 GMT | Insight) -- A Wikimedia Foundation lawyer faced assertive questioning today from a trio of federal appeals court judges in the online encyclopedia nonprofit’s challenge to the legality and constitutionality of the US government’s surveillance of international Internet traffic for national security purposes. The judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit didn't clearly signal how they'll decide, but they pushed back on the argument that a lower court judge improperly dismissed legal and constitutional claims against the National Security Agency’s “Upstream” surveillance of private e-mail and other international Internet communications.A Wikimedia Foundation lawyer faced assertive questioning today from a trio of federal appeals court judges in the online encyclopedia nonprofit’s challenge to the legality and constitutionality of the US government’s surveillance of international Internet traffic for national security purposes...

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