Submissions to the GCSB Security Committee Meeting - Video

Mr Kumar's submission: http://internetganesha.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/submission-gcsb-bill.pdf

Michael Koziarski – Software Consultant

Thomas Beagle – Tech Liberty

Tech Liberty: GCSB Bill – Oral Submission

Firstly, as a civil liberties group we are concerned that this bill significantly expands the powers of the GCSB. There has been a lot of spin one way or another on this issue, but we see:

1. The GCSB’s new purpose of protecting NZ’s cybersecurity being used as an excuse to give them broad oversight and control of the country’s telecommunications networks.
2. New permission to use their equipment and people to assist the SIS, Police and, oddly, the Defence Force.
3. The ability to spy on New Zealanders for a number of reasons including both of those purposes just mentioned.
4. Incredibly wide-ranging warrants and access authorisations that can be granted over classes of people and systems with little meaningful oversight.
We believe that these powers combine with what is left unsaid in the bill to prove a real threat to the security and well-being of New Zealanders. In particular we fear that this bill will allow significant mass surveillance. More>>

Jordan Carter and Susan Chalmers from Internet NZ

InternetNZ written submission

Kate Dewes and Rob Green – Nuclear Disarmerment and Peace Activists

Father Gerard Burns

Simon Terry

ENDS

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