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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. Re:Warrants by wizardforce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Police and SIS must still obtain an interception warrant naming a person or place they want to monitor but, compared to the phone taps of the past, a single warrant now covers phone, email and all internet activity.

    In other words, they no longer have to specify which form of electronic communication they wish to monitor; one blanket warrant covers them all...

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    Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
  2. Re:Good grief. by wizardforce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Encrypted communication such as that between your self and your bank would be considered private. Do you really believe that the government tapping someone's communications is no big deal?

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    Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
  3. Re:Good grief. by wizardforce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You may not realize it but your argument could also be used to justify massive surveillance programs outside of peoples' homes like that in London. After all, what you do outside isn't terribly private either; people can see you all the time but that doesn't make the surveillance mundane and not worth mentioning...

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    Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
  4. At least they don't have secret police by mc6809e · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?

    Obama exempts INTERPOL from search and seizure on US lands

  5. Re:Same shit as always by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right. Taking away privacy is not necessary, in fact it's damn dehumanizing.

    It's like being in a zoo, where you know everybody is pointing and laughing at you while you shit behind a wall of glass.

    Imagine this: you're a soldier serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. You may be a colonel with 20 years of service or a lowly grunt with 2. You're a married man who obviously can't have sex, so you and your wife arrange to have a little private "pillow talk" over the phone. NSA agents pull up your private conversation for the "lulz", laughing their asses off at you even though you might die tomorrow for the very same government who is paying for them to watch you like a zoo exhibit and e-mail each other details of your sex life just as office workers do the latest jokes.

    Fuck that, man.