The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia, has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to end the "mass surveillance program in order to protect the rights of the users around the world".
According to the Verge, Wikimedia will be joined by eight more organizations and is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The foundation said in a blog post that their aim is to protect the rights of the users by putting an end to the mass surveillance program.
This is not the first lawsuit against NSA, other lawsuits concerned with phone-tapping have also been filed earlier.
Executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation Lila Tretikov wrote in a blog post that Wikipedia is based on freedom of expression and NSA was threatening the intellectual freedom by violating users' privacy.
