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Related: About this forumNew Zealand spying on Pacific neighbors and Indonesia: Snowden documents
Source: Reuters
New Zealand spying on Pacific neighbors and Indonesia: Snowden documents
WELLINGTON Wed Mar 4, 2015 8:35pm EST
(Reuters) - New Zealand has been spying electronically on its Pacific Island neighbors and Indonesia and sharing the intelligence with its international allies, according to documents released on Thursday.
The documents, released by former U.S. National Security Authority contractor Edward Snowden and dating back to 2009, said New Zealand's electronic spy agency had intercepted emails, mobile and fixed line phone calls, social media messages and other communications in small Pacific states including Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and French Polynesia.
The material gathered by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) was shared with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), which along with agencies in Australia, Britain, and Canada, make up the "Five Eyes" surveillance network.
"They've gone from some selected targeting of the South Pacific states and other targets to a new stage of where they just hoover up everything," investigative writer Nicky Hager said on Radio New Zealand.
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WELLINGTON Wed Mar 4, 2015 8:35pm EST
(Reuters) - New Zealand has been spying electronically on its Pacific Island neighbors and Indonesia and sharing the intelligence with its international allies, according to documents released on Thursday.
The documents, released by former U.S. National Security Authority contractor Edward Snowden and dating back to 2009, said New Zealand's electronic spy agency had intercepted emails, mobile and fixed line phone calls, social media messages and other communications in small Pacific states including Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and French Polynesia.
The material gathered by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) was shared with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), which along with agencies in Australia, Britain, and Canada, make up the "Five Eyes" surveillance network.
"They've gone from some selected targeting of the South Pacific states and other targets to a new stage of where they just hoover up everything," investigative writer Nicky Hager said on Radio New Zealand.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/05/us-newzealand-spying-pacific-idUSKBN0M104R20150305
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New Zealand spying on Pacific neighbors and Indonesia: Snowden documents (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2015
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1. Clearly due to paranoia being fashionable
because really, Samoa? Samoa? What the hell is Samoa going to do, supply Wellington's black market for sugared crisco?
I would think that pretty much every country has figured out that they spy or gather intelligence on one another. I suspect that this has been going on for a very, very long time.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)3. Just like in September, right on cue...
New Zealand has an election around the corner, and Snow-Wald try to piss all over it with a "big leak"...
I'm guessing the incumbent party in power wins by a landslide again...