Wikipedia case against NSA internet snooping returns to court

Published May 24, 2019 4:07am ET



Attorneys for Wikipedia are scheduled to return to federal court next week in a long-running fight to limit government surveillance of internet messages.

The case has seen some successes, including an appeals court win on standing in 2017, and civil libertarians see the case as a way to stop the National Security Agency from siphoning data from the internet’s backbone to store for warrantless searches.

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