NSA to defend Internet collection in court

Digital rights advocate the Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking the National Security Agency to court over the agency’s Internet data collection program. EFF said it’s the first public court challenge of the NSA spying tool that collects Internet data from the major cables and nodes connecting computer networks around the world, known as “upstream” collection. EFF will argue such indiscriminate collection and any resulting warrantless searches violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.