“New Zealand passed legislation Wednesday allowing its main intelligence agency to spy on residents and citizens. The bill to expand the power of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) passed by 61 votes to 59. ‘This is not, and never will be, about wholesale spying on New Zealanders,’ Prime Minister John Key told parliament. ‘There are threats our government needs to protect New Zealanders from, those threats are real and ever-present and we underestimate them at our peril.’ The push to change the law came after it emerged last year that the GCSB illegally spied on Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/21/new-zealand-passes-law-allowing-domestic-surveillance/
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