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U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to NSA Mass Surveillance
On 21 Febuary, James Buatti, Legal Director for the Wikimedia Foundation, announced that the SCOTUS had refused to hear the WMF's challange to the NSA's "Upstream" surveillance program. The program aimed to intercept internet traffic coming into and leaving the US before it reached. This data included E-mail, private messages and web discussion. The original suit was dissmised on grounds of "state secrets". In August 2022, The Knight Institute, the ACLU and Cooley LLP filed a petiton for writ of certiotori urging the SCOTUS to hear the case.