Could this be the beginning of the anti-surveillance militancy? Just like environmental protection groups fought back against eco-unfriendly corporations by using any means neccessary, we are beginning to see the same patterns in people who are fighting back against the broad surveillance by the NSA, revealed in a series of reports throughout the second half of this year. According to The Verge, an anti-surveillance advocacy group called the “Tenth Amendment Center” has started a campaign in Utah to cut off essential supplies to the NSA data centre. Despite its seemingly sweeping powers, NSA’s Utah data centre has to still turn to the local government for basic necessities like electricity and water. Now, if the local municipal votes not to provide the data centre with 1.7 gallons of water that it needs every day to cool the server farms (talk about environmentally-unfriendly), it would be a matter of serious concern for the NSA.
Could this actually happen?
Now, the campaign may not be able to completely shut down the data centre, but it may put some pressure on the agency. The group has also drafted a possible state-level legislation in California that would stop state employees from cooperating with the NSA. It would also stop NSA-contracted corporations entering into business agreements with the state. The NSA bubble burst after revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been in political asylum in Russia this summer. There have been reports stating that the NSA has bypassed or altogether cracked much of the digital encryption used by businesses and everyday web users. More recently, reports have emerged that say NSA collects 5 billion daily cellphone records of people around the world.
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