Sunday, October 3, 2010

Supreme Court to hear NASA privacy case
[ Sun, 3 Oct 2010 21:55:48 GMT ]

NASA Senior Research Scientist Robert Nelson poses for a photo outside the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010.  For the past three years, Robert Nelson has been wearing two different hats. He's a NASA planetary astronomer by day, studying Saturn's giant moon Titan, and he is the lead plaintiff in a privacy lawsuit against his employer. At issue is whether the government has the right to probe the personal lives of workers with access to federal facilities. The Supreme Court is set to hear an appeal by NASA on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)For the past three years, Robert Nelson has been juggling two lives.


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