Category: Privacy
School children targeted by private investigators Thompson and Clark
Long-term NZSIS officer runs Thompson and Clark surveillance operations
‘We had vehicles outside the house’: Exclusive Brethren used Thompson and Clark to spy on ex-members
One News: Taxpayer-funded grants to NZ tech firm used to build surveillance equipment for UK government
Taxpayer-funded grants to a private New Zealand tech firm were used to build mass surveillance equipment for Britain’s largest intelligence agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
ONE News: Special investigation: Inside one of the SIS’s biggest anti-terrorism operations
One of the Security Intelligence Service’s biggest ever anti-terrorism operations – conducted between July and August 2012 – targeted a group of pro-democracy campaigners who it mistakenly thought were planning to overthrow the military government in Fiji.
Snowden files: GCSB had Solomons post, papers show
The GCSB not only spies on the Solomon Islands using its Waihopai satellite interception base – it also had a secret listening post inside the country, according to documents provided by the United States National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Latest Wikileaks revelations (Sunday Star-Times)
Confidential security industry documents released by Wikileaks this week reveal details of the kinds of surveillance systems that will be used in New Zealand under the controversial GCSB Act.
US spy agencies eavesdrop on Kiwi, Sunday Star-Times
The New Zealand military received help from US spy agencies to monitor the phone calls of Kiwi journalist Jon Stephenson and his associates while he was in Afghanistan reporting on the war.
Who is really responsible for the GCSB shenanigans?
Kitteridge Report suggests “unclear legislation” allowed for GCSB to illegally spy on New Zealanders. But the real responsibility lies elsewhere