Wikipedia:WikiProject Mass surveillance

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Welcome to WikiProject Mass surveillance. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of mass surveillance and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

More work needs to be done on Consent search, Terry stop, and a page needs to be created for Pretextual stop, which redirects currently. In addition, Traffic stop should outline all the ways the government is using traffic enforcement to fight the war on drugs and terrorism. People who are interested should start posting suggestions on the talk pages in those respective topics. Thanks.

Feel free to expand this list!

Timely items may be candidates for WP:ITN - in any case, deserve coverage.

• MYSTIC program (RETRO tool) recording and storing every single conversation in an 'unnamed country' for 30 days. [1][2][3]
• Panetta Review - a bizarre instance of Congress actually trying to oversee the CIA (epic fail). [4]
• Coronavirus app - implementation of mass surveillance platforms to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in a significant number of countries worldwide

• No Place to Hide (Greenwald book)
• Draft:Section 215 of the Patriot Act -- see Section summary of the Patriot Act, Title II#Section 215: Access to records and other items under FISA
• Draft:Inspector General of the National Security Administration
• Draft:California Fourth Amendment Protection Act
• Draft:Utah Fourth Amendment Protection Act
• Draft:Tenth Amendment Center
• Draft:Offnow
• Draft:Bill of Rights Defense Committee
• Draft:Courage Foundation
• Draft:iPhone Location Services
• Garlic routing
• Draft: Reset the Net
• Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse

Please feel free to list your new Mass surveillance-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. Note there is a five day deadline from when the article is created or moved to main article space to when the DYK must be filed. Articles are nominated and discussed at WP:DYKN.

• Zakharov v. Russia
• FISA Improvements Act, listed at DYK.
• USA Freedom Act, listed at DYK.
• Amash-Conyers Amendment, listed at DYK.
• Stop Watching Us, listed at DYK.

• Total Information Awareness
• Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
• Aftermath of the global surveillance disclosure
• Commentary on Edward Snowden's disclosure
• Stop Watching Us
• The Day We Fight Back

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Rybec (talk · contribs)
2. Piotrus (talk · contribs)
3. WhisperToMe (talk · contribs)
4. Petrarchan47 (talk · contribs)
5. Sn1per (talk · contribs) I will help clean up articles, I guess. 03:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
6. Wnt (talk · contribs) Looks like you're off to a good start!
7. Guy Macon (talk · contribs) I have a special interest in embedded systems. 05:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
8. Hanibal911 (talk · contribs)
9. Ross Hill (talk · contribs)
10. Jehochman (talk · contribs)
11. N2e (talk · contribs) – if we want this emergent encyclopedia to be as good as it can be, we should all be concerned about mass surveillance by the state reducing the willingness of editors to freely edit. I'm in!
12. 0x0077BE (talk · contribs)
13. A1candidate (talk · contribs)
14. Tothwolf (talk · contribs) 08:01, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
15. Spirit of Eagle (talk · contribs)
16. DrFleischman (talk · contribs)
17. DylanLacey (talk · contribs)
18. Rsrikanth05 (talk · contribs) Yo, count me in. I guess NSA is reading this? Will work on India-related articles.
19. --Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 15:49, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
20. F3ndot (talk · contribs) - Interested. Especially after having read Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide. 02:28, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
21. Dainomite (talk · contribs)
22. Hendrick 99 (talk · contribs)
23. CatSexist (talk · contribs) I don't have much knowledge on the subject, but I'll help however I can!
24. Whizz40 (talk · contribs)
25. CCLBAB (talk · contribs)
26. Ford MF (talk) 21:59, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
27. felixphew (talk · contribs)
28. WoodBook90 (talk · contribs) Reviewing, editing and confirming
29. Kencf0618 (talk · contribs) Tor, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the rule of law
30. Tony Tan 98 (talk · contribs) - Interested - Helping out in an area that I read a lot about.
31. Lexholland (talk · contribs)
32. Tokelove (talk) 12:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
33. gating (talk · contribs) encryption training, cryptoparty
34. Tío Ferna (talk · contribs) My main interest is the Signals intelligence
35. Indy beetle (talk · contribs) My focus is on the United States' Total Information Awareness project, its program components, and its successors.
36. Tecuixin (talk · contribs) Primarily NYPD and CIA surveillance, especially within the New York area. Also technology and policy behind surveillance - such as social media monitoring, cellphone tracking, and various bills attempting to restrict or document these tools.
37. Evolauxia (talk · contribs)
38. ‪Throat0390‬ (talk · contribs)
39. Kibo no shirei-kan (talk · contribs) Primary things related to privacy and how to avoid Mass Surveillance.

Mass surveillance articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				1			1
FL				1			1
GA		2	1	5			8
B	3	17	8	26		7	61
C	6	36	38	79		26	185
Start		27	41	96		51	215
Stub			9	33		30	72
List		1	3	1		1	6
Category					71		71
File					5		5
Project					2		2
Template					6		6
NA		1	1	2	19		23
Assessed	9	84	101	244	103	115	656
Unassessed				2		24	26
Total	9	84	101	246	103	139	682
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 2,446			Ω = 4.51

See Portal talk:Mass surveillance for a list of interesting topics. Use "open tasks" above for current projects.

Also, feel free to improve the new Mass surveillance portal.

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This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Mass surveillance}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

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Requested moves

• 21 Nov 2024 – Expectation of privacy (United States) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Reasonable expectation of privacy (United States) by Doomsdayer520 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 12 Nov 2024 – Spy pixel (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Web beacon by Pppery (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 04 Jun 2020 – Privacy concerns with social networking services (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by ProcrastinatingReader (t · c); see discussion

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