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New Zealand Cyber Spies Win New Powers

Posted by timothy on from the mmm-new-powers dept.

caeos writes "New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced in New Zealand giving police and Security Intelligence Service officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone's online life. The measures are the largest expansion of police and SIS surveillance capabilities for decades, and mean that all mobile calls and texts, email, internet surfing and online shopping, chatting and social networking can be monitored anywhere in New Zealand. The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS or SIS) is an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government."

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  1. NZIS? by toriver · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, you can't make that shit up. Didn't they at least consider the acronym before deciding on a name?

    1. Re:NZIS? by Cyberax · · Score: 3, Funny

      It sounds threateningly close to 'nazis'.

      Yours truly,
      Captain Obvious.

  2. Don't worry! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obama will change everything!

    1. Re:Don't worry! by Trepidity · · Score: 3, Funny

      I, too, am outraged at his failure to rein in New Zealand. Aren't they a subsidiary of Australia, which is in turn the Oceania subsidiary of the USA?

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    2. Re:Don't worry! by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

      Aren't they a subsidiary of Australia

      We don't want'em but they can have Tasmania if they want it. Come on guys. Its going cheap.

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    3. Re:Don't worry! by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 3, Funny

      Which means as soon as Obama solves the kangaroo problem in Oz, he'll take care of the hobbit humpers.

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      "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
  3. Re:At least they don't have secret police by witherstaff · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sesame street has a lot of real world politics subtly hidden within it. Kermit was the CIA's man that disposed of the democratically elected government of iran to put in a puppet government. People don't appreciate how much a geopolitical fan Henson must have been.

    Robert Newman has a far funnier bit on Kermit and puppet governments.