Congress Concerned About NSA Email Surveillance

The US' National Security Agency is facing scrutiny over the breadth of its domestic surveillance program. According to critics in Congress, its recent penetrations of private telephone calls and emails are broader than previously stated, The New York Times reports.

A new law, enacted by Congress in 2008, gave the NSA greater freedom to collect American's private messages as long as such collections were an incidental byproduct of investigating people "reasonably believed" to be overseas. But it is difficult to distinguish between email being sent by ordinary Americans and being sent from foreign countries — a gray area that's driven some lawmakers to question whether the privacy of Americans in general is being adequately protected.

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CA Debating Privacy Issue

The California Supreme Court seemed unlikely to authorize employers to spy on their workers with hidden cameras.

At the same time, some members of the court appeared skeptical that two women who discovered a surveillance camera in their office had suffered serious harm.

Meeting for oral argument this past week, the court considered a lawsuit brought by the women against their employer for installing a hidden camera in their office.

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