{"id":9212,"date":"2013-08-06T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:40:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:40:43","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9212","title":{"rendered":"TakePart.com: Wikipedia Vows to Protect Readers From Government Snooping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TakePart.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2013\/08\/06\/nsa-controversy-wikipedia-fight-domestic-surveillance\">Wikipedia Vows to Protect Readers From Government Snooping || Responding to NSA controversy, site founder Jimmy Wales says privacy is a \u2018human rights issue.\u2019<\/a> by Matthew Fleischer<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Wikipedia isn\u2019t being so blas\u00e9 about an all-encompassing government snooping operation.<\/p>\n<p>After news broke that its sites were specifically targeted for spying by the NSA, Wikipedia announced that it will take steps to prevent such government encroachment from ever happening again on its site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Wikipedia] believes strongly in protecting the privacy of its readers and editors,\u201d the nonprofit said in a statement published on its website. \u201cRecent leaks of the NSA\u2019s XKeyscore program have prompted our community members to push for the use of HTTPS by default for the Wikimedia projects.\u201d HTTPS is a secure form of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the most common form of online digital communication.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}