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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.

Open tasks[edit]

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!

In the news[edit]

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

Drafts and stubs for improvement[edit]

New articles (or moved from Draft:) and DYKs under discussion[edit]

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.

Actively revised articles[edit]

Participants[edit]

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

Rybec (talk · contribs)
Piotrus (talk · contribs)
WhisperToMe (talk · contribs)
Petrarchan47 (talk · contribs)
Sn1per (talk · contribs) I will help clean up articles, I guess. 03:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Wnt (talk · contribs) Looks like you're off to a good start!
Guy Macon (talk · contribs) I have a special interest in embedded systems. 05:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hanibal911 (talk · contribs)
Ross Hill (talk · contribs)
Jehochman (talk · contribs)
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!
0x0077BE (talk · contribs)
A1candidate (talk · contribs)
Tothwolf (talk · contribs) 08:01, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Spirit of Eagle (talk · contribs)
DrFleischman (talk · contribs)
DylanLacey (talk · contribs)
Rsrikanth05 (talk · contribs) Yo, count me in. I guess NSA is reading this? Will work on India-related articles.
--Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 15:49, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
F3ndot (talk · contribs) - Interested. Especially after having read Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide. 02:28, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dainomite (talk · contribs)
Hendrick 99 (talk · contribs)
CatSexist (talk · contribs) I don't have much knowledge on the subject, but I'll help however I can!
Whizz40 (talk · contribs)
CCLBAB (talk · contribs)
Ford MF (talk) 21:59, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
felixphew (talk · contribs)
WoodBook90 (talk · contribs) Reviewing, editing and confirming
Kencf0618 (talk · contribs) Tor, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the rule of law
Tony Tan 98 (talk · contribs) - Interested - Helping out in an area that I read a lot about.
Lexholland (talk · contribs)
Tokelove (talk) 12:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
gating (talk · contribs) encryption training, cryptoparty
Tío Ferna (talk · contribs) My main interest is the Signals intelligence
Indy beetle (talk · contribs) My focus is on the United States' Total Information Awareness project, its program components, and its successors.
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.
Evolauxia (talk · contribs)

Mass surveillance articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				1			1
FL				1			1
GA		2		5			7
B	3	15	9	25		7	59
C	6	34	37	73		26	176
Start		26	39	96		53	214
Stub		3	8	34		32	77
List		1	3	1		1	6
Category				1	71		72
File					3		3
Project					2		2
Template					6		6
NA		1	1	2	17		21
Assessed	9	82	97	239	99	119	645
Unassessed						26	26
Total	9	82	97	239	99	145	671
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 2,427			Ω = 4.54

Portal[edit]

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.

Review and assessment[edit]

Assessment[edit]

Assessment

Peer review[edit]

Peer review

Recognized content[edit]

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.

Good articles[edit]

Former good articles[edit]

ECHELON

Did you know? articles[edit]

In the News articles[edit]

Picture of the day pictures[edit]

Nrol-39

Featured pictures[edit]

Nrol-39

Article alerts[edit]

Proposed deletions

27 Apr 2024 – (This discussion is) Off the Record (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Justiyaya (t · c): I cannot see how this meets Wikipedia:Notability (films) or WP:GNG, WP:BEFORE search revealed no additional sources. Don't think there is a good redirect target either.

Redirects for discussion

15 Apr 2024 – Technofascism (talk · edit · hist) →Internet censorship was RfDed by MrPersonHumanGuy (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

30 Mar 2024 – Clearview AI (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Czarking0 (t · c); start 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

Categories[edit]

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Mass surveillance‎ (12 C, 144 P)

Mass surveillance by country‎ (1 C, 13 P)

COVID-19 contact tracing apps‎ (29 P)

Fiction about mass surveillance‎ (6 C, 13 P)

Global surveillance‎ (2 C, 33 P)

Intelligence agency programmes revealed by Edward Snowden‎ (22 P)

Mass intelligence-gathering systems‎ (18 P)

Mass surveillance industry‎ (3 P)

Mass surveillance litigation‎ (10 P)

National identification numbers‎ (3 C, 42 P)

Protests against mass surveillance‎ (5 P)

Reconnaissance satellites‎ (4 C, 15 P)

Television episodes about mass surveillance‎ (3 P)

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WikiProject Mass surveillance‎ (2 C, 3 P)

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