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US Congress Must Reform FISA Section 702 Now to Protect Wikipedia and its Users

Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Stan Adams, Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America, and Jan Gerlach, Director of Public Policy. The National Security Agency (NSA) can track anyone who reads or edits a Wikipedia article. We know this because the surveillance powers granted by Section 702 of the Foreign…

Section 702

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US Congress Must Reform FISA Section 702 Now to Protect Wikipedia and its Users
US Congress Must Reform FISA Section 702 Now to Protect Wikipedia and its Users
Section 702

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U.S. Supreme Court Rulings Spared the Wikimedia Model, for Now

Three takeaways for Wikipedia and free knowledge advocates from the Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter, Inc v. Taamneh et al. rulings. Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Stan Adams, Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America; Allison Davenport, Public Policy Research and Analysis Manager; and, Jacob Rogers, Associate General Counsel. …

Section 230

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U.S. Supreme Court Rulings Spared the Wikimedia Model, for Now
U.S. Supreme Court Rulings Spared the Wikimedia Model, for Now
Section 230

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·Apr 17

Open-Source Platforms as Repositories of Shared Knowledge and Memory about Conflict

Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Valentina Vera-Quiroz, Human Rights, Policy, and Tech Fellow. In the early 2000s, the Colombian army lured young men to rural areas with offers of work, assassinated them, and passed them off to authorities as guerrillas killed on the battlefield in order to increase the “body…

Open Source Platforms

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Open-Source Platforms as Repositories of Shared Knowledge and Memory about Conflict
Open-Source Platforms as Repositories of Shared Knowledge and Memory about Conflict
Open Source Platforms

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·Mar 28

Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently Moderated and Hosted

Written by Dimitar Dimitrov, Policy Director at Wikimedia Europe Since the advent of online platforms, which allow users to openly share content, the structure of the public sphere has been transformed. Until just a few decades ago, we were used to the fact that a significant part of public discourse…

Digital Public Spaces

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Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently Moderated and Hosted
Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently Moderated and Hosted
Digital Public Spaces

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·Jan 25

Gonzalez v. Google: What’s at stake for Wikipedia?

Update from Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President of Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation: On 18 May 2023, the US Supreme Court issued its ruling on Gonzalez v. Google LLC. The case marked the first time that the Court considered Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects website hosts…

Section 230

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Gonzalez v. Google: What’s at stake for Wikipedia?
Gonzalez v. Google: What’s at stake for Wikipedia?
Section 230

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·Nov 21, 2022

Wikimedia Foundation Tells FTC to Rein in Commercial Surveillance

Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Kate Ruane, Lead Public Policy Specialist for the United States; Ellen Magallanes, Senior Counsel; and, Clarissa Choy, Senior Counsel. Protecting privacy is in Wikimedians’ DNA. Both the Foundation and the Wikimedia community know better than most that privacy is an essential element of free knowledge…

Commercial Surveillance

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Wikimedia Foundation Tells FTC to Rein in Commercial Surveillance
Wikimedia Foundation Tells FTC to Rein in Commercial Surveillance
Commercial Surveillance

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·Nov 17, 2022

Deep Dive: The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill

Without Further Revision, Bill Will Harm Wikipedia and Other Open Knowledge Projects The second deep dive in our series on online safety bills. Written by Wikimedia Foundation’s: Tina Butoiu, Legal Counsel; Aly Marino, Tech Law and Policy Fellow; Phil Bradley-Schmieg, Lead Counsel; and, Miguelángel Verde, Senior Editor. Governments worldwide are…

United Kingdom

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Deep Dive: The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill
Deep Dive: The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill
United Kingdom

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Aug 2, 2022

Ray of Light: Successful Joint Advocacy Led to Veto on Philippines SIM Card Registration Act

Written by Wikimedia Foundation’s Rachel Arinii Judhistari (Rjudhistari), Lead Public Policy Specialist for Asia Mobile communications are occupying a more central role in societies across the world, with connectivity increasing, and coverage and usage gaps diminishing worldwide. This is also the case in the East Asian and Pacific region, including…

Civil Society

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Ray of Light: Successful Joint Advocacy Led to Veto on Philippines SIM Card Registration Act
Ray of Light: Successful Joint Advocacy Led to Veto on Philippines SIM Card Registration Act
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·Jun 1, 2022

Deep Dive: Australia’s Online Safety Expectations

The first deep dive in our series on online safety bills. Written by Wikimedia Foundation’s: Rachel Arinii Judhistari (Rjudhistari), Lead Public Policy Specialist for Asia, and Franziska Putz, Movement Advocacy Community Manager. Governments around the world are drafting bills and passing laws to improve online safety and hold technology platforms…

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Deep Dive: Australia’s Online Safety Expectations
Deep Dive: Australia’s Online Safety Expectations

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·May 3, 2022

The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?

Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Jan Gerlach, Director of Public Policy, and Franziska Putz, Movement Advocacy Community Manager. Policymakers in the European Union (EU) have finally completed their negotiations over the Digital Services Act (DSA), a regulation that aims to address the spread of illegal content online. Now they have…

Digital Services Act

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The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
Digital Services Act

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