New Zealand's role in the Five Eyes surveillance alliance has been a sideshow to debates that have erupted in the US, the UK, and Europe since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden began releasing his trove of classified documents.
But that may change tomorrow night, NZ time, at the Auckland Town Hall.
With five days left until a general election, Kim Dotcom, founder of the Internet Party contesting that election, is being joined by Glenn Greenwald, who is promising to reveal information showing that New Zealanders have been the subject of mass surveillance by their own government.
If he delivers, that will draw statements made by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key into question. The prime minister has already promised to resign if mass surveillance has taken place.
Key, who called Greenwald "Dotcom's little henchman", said he will declassify documents to prove he has been telling the truth. He said New Zealand's communications security agency GCSB looked into a plan for such mass surveillance after a series of cyber attacks, but that the plan was rejected and never implemented. Full story...
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But that may change tomorrow night, NZ time, at the Auckland Town Hall.
With five days left until a general election, Kim Dotcom, founder of the Internet Party contesting that election, is being joined by Glenn Greenwald, who is promising to reveal information showing that New Zealanders have been the subject of mass surveillance by their own government.
If he delivers, that will draw statements made by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key into question. The prime minister has already promised to resign if mass surveillance has taken place.
Key, who called Greenwald "Dotcom's little henchman", said he will declassify documents to prove he has been telling the truth. He said New Zealand's communications security agency GCSB looked into a plan for such mass surveillance after a series of cyber attacks, but that the plan was rejected and never implemented. Full story...
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