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Would you like your phone to be tapped without a warrant? Today, your internet connection can be.

The NSA will end its unconstitutional surveillance practices. Filing this suit has raised awareness and continued a conversation about mass surveillance.

As an individual, or a non-lawyer, you can help make the internet more secure by raising awareness through your personal networks, using encryption and tools like HTTPS Everywhere and supporting organizations that support your rights on the internet. Talk about why privacy matters to your local or national politics to support privacy reform.

We take privacy and its protection seriously. People today often get their first -- and sometimes only identity -- online. It is critical that our users' sensitive information is protected, secure, and under end-user control. The Wikimedia Foundation is in a unique, neutral position to support this level of privacy online. We are definitely thinking about product and technical implications of this.

In spirit of the First Amendment, we believe that privacy makes it possible for people to speak freely, or think freely. Imagine you’re in a place where you disagree with popular public opinion: perhaps there is corruption in your government, but people are too intimidated to speak up. Privacy could give you the protection to blow the whistle. Perhaps you live in a religious community, but have questions. Privacy can protect your right to explore controversial ideas or other teachings. Maybe you’re a member of a minority group that is discriminated against where you live. Privacy is a right that could allow you to seek resources or support. Privacy allows people to share information freely, without the fear of being watched, censored, or persecuted. This matters everywhere in the world, even in our own country.