28.06.2014 - 13:15 [ Techdirt ]

EFF, Greenpeace Fly Blimp Over NSA‘s Utah Datacenter; Launch Campaign To Stop Illegal Internet Spying

Earlier this week, EFF‘s Parker Higgins noted that he was about to head on a secretive „adventure to Utah“ — and now it‘s come out that he was actually there to fly a blimp over the NSA‘s infamous datacenter in Bluffdale, Utah. You know the one. It‘s received plenty of attention over the past few years, as it was designed to store a ton of electronic data that the NSA previously didn‘t have room for. Either way, EFF and Greenpeace teamed up to launch a new campaign called Stand Against Spying, and took to the skies in the blimp to get it some attention.

You can also see a brief video of the blimp taking off. If you look closely, you‘ll see the big arrow pointing downward from the blimp saying „NSA Illegal Spying Below.