Think Progress: How The Supreme Court Could Decide The Fate Of NSA Surveillance

Think Progress: How The Supreme Court Could Decide The Fate Of NSA Surveillance by Lauren C. Williams:

An Idaho nurse is leading the latest charge against the Obama administration for the U.S. National Security Agency’s dragnet phone data surveillance program.

With legal help from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, neonatal intensive care nurse Anna Smith contested the government’s spy programs Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In Monday’s oral argument for Smith v. Obama, Smith’s attorney and husband, Peter Smith, asserted the government violated Smith’s privacy by searching and collecting data that reveals intimate details about her and her family without her permission. Smith argued that each time the NSA’s database was queried or restocked with new information violated the Fourth Amendment.