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Wikipedia

Free online encyclopedia run by a nonprofit · Score 94/100 · Last checked 2026-10-22

The short version

Nothing in the public record we checked argues against allowing it.

Built from: public records, checked 2026-10-22.

Score breakdown

Security record100

Documented incidents and safeguards (public record, not a technical test)

Data jurisdiction88

Which laws and governments can reach your data

Ownership transparency96

How plainly the owner can be traced

Third-party exposure92

Documented analytics, advertising and attribution partners

Who owns it

Wikipedia→Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Parent based in: 🇺🇸 United States

Laws that can apply: US CLOUD Act, FISA 702

Where your data can go

Who	Country	Why they are involved
Wikimedia Foundation (own data centres)	🇺🇸 United States	Own servers in Virginia and Texas, plus caching sites in Europe, Asia and South America

Jurisdictions touched: 🇺🇸 United States

What the public record says

good to knowHTTPS is the default for all traffic

The Foundation made HTTPS the default for every Wikimedia site in 2015, with HSTS to resist downgrade attacks. Source

good to knowChallenged NSA surveillance in court

Wikimedia sued over NSA Upstream surveillance in 2015. Courts dismissed the case on state-secrets grounds and the Supreme Court declined review in February 2023. Source

good to knowPublishes transparency reports

The Foundation publishes periodic reports on requests for user data and content removal. Source

Sources

Ownership, locations and data partners come from the company's own pages and filings where they exist. Last checked 2026-10-22.