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New Zealand Spied On Nearly Two Dozen Pacific Countries
An anonymous reader writes New documents from Edward Snowden indicate New Zealand undertook "full take" interception of communications from Pacific nations and forwarded the data to the NSA. The data, collected by New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, was then fed into the NSA's XKeyscore search engine to allow analysts to trawl for intelligence. The New Zealand link helped flesh out the NSA's ambitions to intercept communications globally.
Btw, the NZ Herald Articles:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...
The key point also:
But the Snowden papers show that counter-terrorism is at most a minor part of the GCSB's operations. Most projects are assisting the US and allies to gather political and economic intelligence country-by-country around the world.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201...
>In personal testimonies about their work made available to McClatchy, veterans of the unit described pervasive and unfettered intrusion into the private lives of ordinary Palestinians, including use of information about sexual preferences and medical conditions to coerce people into becoming informers.
Do enjoy being put in your place? Or are you going to backpedal and say, "Oh, that's just Israel. They only work with the NSA. The NSA wouldn't stoop to that level."
So they're going to destroy your reputation at a moments notice, by disclosing that they illegally spied on you and open themselves up to law suits.
Sounds great. I could do with a few million to retire on.
Please NSA, disclose who I send text messages to.
You will never get evidence to use against them.
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