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Re:Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Dat... by jackhammer on Friday November 21, 2014 @03:24AM (#8640351)
> The bill, H.B. 161, directs municipalities like Bluffdale to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.”

What about the IRS? Doesn't actually every government agency collect data?

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Re:Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Dat... by jsmthrowaway on Friday November 21, 2014 @03:28AM (#8640362)
NOAA and the National Weather Service, within Commerce, came to mind for me. No more weather forecasts for Utah, since municipalities would be prevented from providing utilities to federal agencies that collect data. Like the temperature.

Thankfully, reading the bill paints a little more optimistic of a picture, but I can still see several interpretations of the wording that could have unintended consequences.

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