Last Monday the USSC stepped into the information privacy debate by agreeing to hear a case asking how much personal information the federal government may seek and keep on it employees. In the lower court case Nelson v NASA,1 the Ninth Circuit sided with the employees, holding that the government’s intensive background check of NASA Jet Propulsion Lab employees was unconstitutional. For further details, that line of cases can be accessed from the Ninth Circuit’s website here. The government’s petition for a writ certiorari is available here. The case will like be heard in Fall 2010. I will definitely keep my eyes on this one.
- 530 F.3d 865 [↩]