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New Zealand Spied On Nearly Two Dozen Pacific Countries

Posted by samzenpus on from the keep-your-eyes-on-your-own-paper dept.

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.

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  1. Re:What I find unbelievable... by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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    You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.