New shocking evidence has emerged from Edward Snowden’s trove of documents about a program called ICREACH under which data collected by the GCSB is shared with 23 US spy agencies.
Under new sharing agreements which appear to have commenced immediately after John Key’s government came to power in 2008, data collected by the GCSB is shared with internal US spy agencies including the CIA, FBI, and US military intelligence.
In fact the GCSB and Key were so keen to please their US masters that in 2008 they agreed to the sharing of data with the CIA and FBI before any of the other Five Eyes (Second Party) partners did so.
Denis Tegg is a Lawyer, Activist, (former spokesperson ) of environment group Coromandel Watchdog for 35 years. Successfully kept mining companies out of Coromandel conservation land. Researcher / writer on state surveillance and erosion of civil liberties.
When 2.8 million Kiwis go to review their Vodafone activity (voice, text, Internet), why does spendmanager.vodafone.co.NZ resolve to an IP in Melbourne?
This is crazy! I’m waiting for the big announcement from Dotcom and Snowden on 15th September regaurding spying on NZ. I will be highly dissapointed with Key if this is the case. Thank you for your blog, really interesting read.
I have been watching a tv drama called ‘Secret State’ which, along with ‘Nikita’, gives a lot of visual information on the deployment of the spying apparatus. Sure, sure, there are plenty of other quasi-realistic spy dramas, all of which chart the maxim of: ‘if it’s imaginable then it’s do-able’.
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