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The Wikimedia Foundation (the group behind Wikipedia) has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency, partially in response to reports of espionage by the USA leaked by Edward Snowden:

March 10, 2015

The Wikmedia Foundation said it was taking action against the NSA’s so-called “upstream” surveillance work which targets communication with people not in the US.

Such spying violates US laws on free speech and those that govern against unreasonable search and seizure, it said.

The scale of the monitoring carried out by the NSA has been revealed in documents made public by whistleblower Edward Snowden over the last two years. Some of those papers show the NSA tapped the net’s backbone network to siphon off data. The backbone is made up of high-speed cables that link big ISPs and key transit points on the net.

“By tapping the backbone of the internet, the NSA is straining the backbone of democracy,” said Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, in a blogpost announcing the legal action.

Targeting the backbone means the NSA casts a “vast net” and inevitably scoops up data unrelated to any target and will also include domestic communications, violating the rules governing what the NSA can spy on, said Ms Tretikov.

Information in the Snowden papers revealed that Wikipedia has been explicitly targeted, said the blogpost.

“By violating our users’ privacy, the NSA is threatening the intellectual freedom that is central to people’s ability to create and understand knowledge,” said Ms Tretikov.

In an accompanying editorial published in the New York Times, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he hoped the lawsuit would bring an “end to the NSA’s dragnet surveillance of Internet traffic”.  http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31813289

Those who live in the USA no longer have proper full freedom of speech nor protection against unreasonable searches.  Those who believe otherwise have not looked into these matters enough or are kidding themselves.

As far as surveillance goes, the US government has no intention to stop spying on everything it thinks it can.  Even if Wikimedia wins part of its lawsuit, the end result will be that the NSA and/or some other governmental group(s) will come up with a so-called ‘legal’ way to continue to collect massive amounts of data.

The government of the United States simply does not believe that anyone has privacy rights on the Internet.

That being said, because embarrassment over the Snowden leaks and other matters, the USA may well exempt Europe from some of its surveillance.  Partially because of this, many are looking to store data in Europe and various data centers are now in place and others in progress in Europe.

Since the final 666 of biblical prophecy is European, this data center development is consistent with what could be expected.  I also believe that because the US government has agreed to share espionage techniques and data with the Europeans that this will help Europe develop its own systems which will include massive surveillance.

The upcoming European Beast power will, relatively soon, have what it needs to fulfill various prophecies such as the following:

15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18, NKJV)

23 ‘And in the latter end of their kingdom, about the perfecting of the transgressors, stand up doth a king, fierce of face, and understanding hidden things; (Daniel 8:23, Young’s Literal Translation)

It would seem to take computers, data centers, and other technology to aid in the fulfillment of the above scriptures, as well as various forms cyber-spying/monitoring.

This cyber-spying is something that the U.S.A. has been engaged in for time. Now, that technology is being shared with the Europeans–by both the USA government and certain private companies.

Wikimedia’s lawsuit may spotlight some of this, but will not stop it.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 at 7:00 am and is filed under Religious News.

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