U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia to resurrect its lawsuit against the National Security Agency. The justices left in place a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit based on the government's assertion of what is called the state secrets privilege. Wikimedia Foundation sued in 2015 challenging the legality of the NSA's "Upstream" surveillance.
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