Wikimedia Foundation Suit Over Mass Online Surveillance Tossed (1)

The nonprofit behind Wikipedia can’t challenge a U.S. national security program for tracking communications online in search of foreign intelligence because the legal tussle risks revealing state secrets, a federal appeals court ruled.

Allowing the lawsuit to continue “would unjustifiably risk the disclosure of privileged information,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

The suit from the Wikimedia Foundation is one of a long-running series of legal challenges to national security surveillance programs, which have expanded over the years as part of the U.S. war on terrorism.

The foundation sued the National Security Agency in 2015 ...