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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 alen · · Score: -1, Troll

    because no one is tracking you. it's impossible to do it with the amount of people we have. i'm in the USA, but why would anyone in the NSA care if i buy coffee at starbucks or some snobby place or who i text? how would anyone track tens of millions of people daily going about their daily business?

    so there is data in the NSA computers that i text a few people every day, and one person who just went to russia i haven't texted her since she left. do you think anyone cares? multiply this by 300 million people in the USA. do you think there are people sitting around doing nothing but reading who texts who?