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Celso Bessa (sɛwsʊ bɛ:sa)

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Wikimedia (Wikipédia) processa a NSA por espionagem em massa

11 março, 2015 por Celso Bessa

A Wikimedia Foundations, que mantém a Wikipédia, e várias outras organizações estão processando a agência de segurança americana, NSA (National Security Agency), por espionagem em massa. Em inglês no The New York Times.

These volunteers should be able to do their work without having to worry that the United States government is monitoring what they read and write. Unfortunately, their anonymity is far from certain because, using upstream surveillance, the N.S.A. intercepts and searches virtually all of the international text-based traffic that flows across the Internet “backbone” inside the United States. This is the network of fiber-optic cables and junctions that connect Wikipedia with its global community of readers and editors.

As a result, whenever someone overseas views or edits a Wikipedia page, it’s likely that the N.S.A. is tracking that activity — including the content of what was read or typed, as well as other information that can be linked to the person’s physical location and possible identity. These activities are sensitive and private: They can reveal everything from a person’s political and religious beliefs to sexual orientation and medical conditions.

The notion that the N.S.A. is monitoring Wikipedia’s users is not, unfortunately, a stretch of the imagination. One of the documents revealed by the whistle-blower Edward J. Snowden specifically identified Wikipedia as a target for surveillance, alongside several other major websites like CNN.com, Gmail and Facebook. The leaked slide from a classified PowerPoint presentation declared that monitoring these sites could allow N.S.A. analysts to learn “nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet.”

Via The Next Web

Arquivado em: espionagem Marcados com as tags: direitos civis, Edward Snowden, espionagem, Estados Unidos da América, EUA, NSA, sociedade, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipédia

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