NZ Herald | 17 March 2015 Wrong, says the Prime Minister of the surveillance stories. But John Key won’t say why. Don’t believe what you read in the newspaper, says the Foreign Minister of reports New Zealand was spying on the Solomon Islands government. However, there’s no benefit in having discussions about it through the…
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept | March 13, 2015 “Bulk collection” language fraud now being perpetrated with the eager help of the largest media outlets… Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled “torture” with the Orwellian euphemism “enhanced interrogation techniques” to make it more palatable, the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance…
NZ Herald | 12 March 2015 The Prime Minister has previously promised to resign if it is proven that the GCSB carries out mass surveillance of New Zealanders. His critics say that the latest Snowden revelations do indeed show that. So, should he resign? John Key’s biggest critic at the moment seems to be international…
The Intercept | 10 March 2015 New Zealand is conducting covert surveillance operations against some of its strongest trading partners and has obtained sophisticated malware to infect targeted computers and steal data, newly released documents reveal. The country’s eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Security Bureau, or GCSB, is carrying out the surveillance across the Asia-Pacific region…
The Intercept | 4 March 2015 New Zealand’s electronic eavesdropping agency is spying on its neighbors and sharing communications it intercepts in bulk with the National Security Agency through a controversial Internet mass surveillance system, according to newly revealed secret documents. Government Communications Security Bureau, New Zealand’s equivalent of the NSA, has been sweeping up…
Reuters | 16 Feb 2015 The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives. That long-sought…
Washington Free Beacon | 13 Feb 2015 The National Security Agency, still reeling from massive leaks caused by Edward Snowden, is preparing to be hit with another major loss of secrets, according to U.S. intelligence officials. The leaks are expected to be published in the near future by a news outlet that was not further…
TheLocal.de | February 5, 2015 Warned government they may cut ties with German counterparts over parliamentary inquiry into spying British spies have warned the government they may cut off ties with their German counterparts over a parliamentary inquiry into spying by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Focus magazine reported on Thursday that top spies…
Elizabeth Murray | Consortium News | February 4, 2015 Exclusive: For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi’s capabilities pale in comparison to what the NSA can now do, notes former U.S. intelligence analyst Elizabeth Murray. By Elizabeth…
Telesur | 26 Jan 215 Google took nearly three years to inform WikiLeaks that it provided the U.S. Justice Department massive amounts of emails of group’s staff. WikiLeaks strongly criticized Google at a press conference in Geneva Monday for taking two and a half years to divulge that it had handed over staff emails from…