Appeals court rules Wikimedia can challenge NSA surveillance program

Published May 23, 2017 6:08pm ET



A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Wikimedia has standing to challenge a National Security Agency online surveillance program, throwing out a lower court decision and sending it back to that court for further review.

Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit that owns Wikipedia and other “collaboratively edited reference projects,” challenged the NSA’s “Upstream” program, saying the government is violating its First and Fourth Amendment rights.

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