Showing posts with label gcsb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gcsb. Show all posts
Monday, March 9, 2015
New e-media programme - Manning and Hager on NZ's Pacific spy 'arrogance'
LIVE NOW on Evening Report .... journalist and ER founder Selwyn Manning talks to investigative journalist Nicky Hager about New Zealand "full-take collection" spying on New Zealand's Pacific neighbours.
EveningReport.nz was launched tonight with the Hager interview on the Snowden Revelations.
Earlier Café Pacific blog posting today - From a coconet spy tempest to TPPA secrecy
Pacific Media Watch/The Intercept report - NZ spies on Pacific neighbours
Monday, July 29, 2013
NZ Defence Force’s paranoia about journalism 'subversives'
Cartoon source: Bryce Edwards blog |
IF THE thousands of people who marched on the weekend against New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bill (GCSB Bill) wanted further justification for their concerns, the Defence Force has just provided it with bells on.
The mindset that treats journalists as being threats to security on a par with foreign hostiles, activist groups, criminal hackers and dishonest staff is an excellent illustration of why the surveillance powers bestowed by the Bill are so dangerous.
A Defence Force that treats the normal querying of the status quo by the Fourth Estate as being essentially treasonous in nature, has gone off the reservation, and is out of control.
Give it the power to do so, and such an organisation will readily use the surveillance powers in the GCSB Bill to substantiate its persecution complex.
It is already doing so. This isn’t just a theoretical danger, glimmering somewhere off in the future.
Friday, July 26, 2013
NZ protesters condemn GCSB ‘spy bill’ and spooks centre with Pacific targets
A young mother with a ‘nothing to hide’ placard during the ‘spy bill’ protest in Auckland today. Image: Del Abcede/PMC |
THOUSANDS of protesters took to the streets in New Zealand today to demonstrate against a government communications agency accused of spying on Pacific nations, including Fiji, and proposed law giving it greater powers to spy on NZ citizens.
More than 1000 people protested in central Auckland outside the Town Hall, including internet millionaire Kim Dotcom who is a vocal opponent of NZ's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).
Big crowds gathered in protest staged in 11 other cities and downs against Prime Minister John Key's proposed "spy bill", which would give extra powers to the GCSB.
The legislation is likely to be passed in Parliament after United Future's Peter Dunne confirmed earlier this week that he would back the controversial bill after changes that have been widely condemned as "window-dressing".
Once passed into law, the bill would extend the powers of the GCSB to allow it to provide information for the New Zealand Police, Defence Force and the Security Intelligence Service.
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