Tag Archives: GCSB

XKEYSCORE – Nah, yeah

In a remarkable admission John Key has been forced to admit that Edward Snowden’s claims about the Five Eye’s comprehensive spying platform XKeyscore may very well be true but the data is not coming from mass surveillance on New Zealanders by the GCSB. This is how Key was reported in the NZ Herald; Prime Minister […]

Snowden was the star

Tonight’s Moment of Truth mostly lived up to it billing, with the notable and glaring exception of Kim Dotcom’s email revelation pertaining to John Key allegedly knowing about him well before the mansion show raid; and actively participating in his entrapment here, colluding with US interests. It is not clear why he pulled this part of […]

Greenwald, GCSB and the war on dissent

Forget the war on terror. Glenn Greenwald has confirmed what mass surveillance is really about. Keeping track of internal dissenters, those pesky animal and human rights activists; those annoying NGO’s with their irritating agendas; those do gooder environmentalists and their outrageous claims against corporations; and who knows maybe even political parties, especially those with non […]

David Fisher – Please “Lose” your notes

Accidents happen. Hard drives fail. Things get lost. Journalists like politicians can have memory lapses. The Police and GCSB have convinced (or rather their legal counsel has – the Police and GCSB aren’t that bright) a High Court judge that senior New Zealand Herald writer David Fisher’s research for his investigative book The Secret Life of […]

If it’s not big brother, it’s mr plod watching you

Yet more news out of Britain about police abuse of surveillance powers to spy on peaceful and completely legitimate politicians and activists who deviate even modestly from the status quo consensus. This time it is two Green Party politicians who have been spied on for over a decade despite never breaking the law or being arrested. […]

Police – Protecting you or the status quo?

Britain has a long and disgraceful history of not only the intelligence services but also the police trying to both infiltrate and act as agent provocateurs inside peaceful protest groups. A recent Guardian newspaper article on how the police tried to recruit (not realising he was being filmed) a Cambridge student into spying on different […]