[Advocacy Advisors] PRISM

Wed Jun 12 07:14:13 UTC 2013

On 12 June 2013 16:41, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Liam,
>
> Given that 1/1000th sampling of article readers' access logs has
> recently been increased to complete archival for 30 days, it seems
> preposterous and misleading to suggest that "we have relatively
> minimal exposure in the legal/technical sense." Would you please
> elaborate?
>

You're forgetting the crucial word "relatively".

> I would prefer using banner space to urge a boycott of and individual
> court actions against the companies who have been acquiescing to the
> government's data access demands until Congress passes a law
> abolishing and forbidding the practice of eavesdropping, because of
> the high rate of incarceration in the US.

If you would like to gain consensus that Wikimedia projects use the banner
space to promote a boycott of particular technology companies, then I
suggest you write a userspace essay to that effect and then try to gain
consensus on each project. Good luck with that.

> Do you believe there is a
> direct causal relationship from the extent of surveillance and the
> number of criminal convictions involving mandatory minimum sentences
> in the US?
>
>
I have no idea. Perhaps you could do some research into the matter and
publish in a criminology journal.
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