14 DAY TRIAL // The White House may not be taking definitive measures to limit NSA surveillance, but various states are taking a stance against mass surveillance.
After it was revealed that Arizona was seeking to withdraw state support for intelligence agencies’ collection of metadata and to ban courts from accepting the use of warrantless gathered data, it’s now Utah’s turn.
Marc Roberts, a Republican lawmaker in Utah, wants to fight against the NSA by starting locally. The bill he plans to introduce would prevent anyone from supplying water to the huge NSA data center that is currently under construction in his state.
According to The Guardian, Roberts said that if the US wants to spy on the whole world and American citizens, it can do that, but not with the help of the state he represents.
Unfortunately for Roberts, however, the bill doesn’t really have a lot of support, or at the very least, not enough to make it count. There are plenty of activists that are hoping for the bill to pass, however.