New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say
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Re: New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say
#2In related news, your mom is spying on you.
Question: who gives a damn.
No one is entitled to privacy - no government, no organization and no individual. It's not one of your "human rights". In fact, it's not even a thing. Quite literally everyone has access to all of your personal shit and all of your super-secret secrets at all times. If you have a problem with this, switch planets perhaps, I don't know.
Re: New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say
#3As a wannabe-kiwi, I'm hardly surprised. PM Key has been 'cooperative' with the US in most things so it's not surprising Five Eyes are being used to its/their fullest potential. Good thing GCSB has been talked about a lot even before this revelation... And about TPPA.
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#4So is it mostly about French territories ? I don't think that the Vanuatu or the Fiji are a huge threat on the global scale.
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#5NZ Prime Minister John Key in August, 2013: "I'll resign if GCSB conducts mass surveillance".
Well, now'd be a good time.
Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
Re: New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say
#6So is it mostly about French territories ? I don't think that the Vanuatu or the Fiji are a huge threat on the global scale.
Fiji has had a series of military coups in recent times. Of course NZ (and others) monitor them.
Re: New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say
#7NZ Prime Minister John Key in August, 2013: "I'll resign if GCSB conducts mass surveillance". Well, now'd be a good time. Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
I guess one could argue this isn't Mass" surveillance since it was targeting specific nations. I don't agree, just that words can be twisted in hindsight to alter meaning.
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#8So everyone's spying on everyone. Wonder if these guys could all get a wiki up and running, would save so much trouble.
Re: New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say
#9NZ Prime Minister John Key in August, 2013: "I'll resign if GCSB conducts mass surveillance". Well, now'd be a good time. Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
I get sooooo cross when I read anything that Key says.
"If I wholesale blatantly flout the law as Prime Minister I'm never going to survive anyway."
That's such a twisted (and effective, it seems) way of convincing people that he hasn't been involved in any wrong-doing.
Let us not forget his statement on the GCSB bill that allowed sweeping powers for the spy agency (under his control) [1].
"All they can do is protect you, so it's against malware or a virus. ... On your computer at home you almost certainly have Norton Antivirus...that is exactly what that is, at a much higher level."
Slippery doesn't even begin to describe the character of John Key.
[1] http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/campbelllive/john-key-defends... (from 8:00 in the video)
Re: New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say
#10Full take, my a... Put those chaps in prison. There is simply no other place on earth for them.