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Too close for comfort: is the GCSB spying on us?

Too close for comfort: is the GCSB spying on us?

Posted by Clare Curran on June 9th, 2013

Stunning revelations that the US equivalent of the GCSB has been routinely monitoring US citizens phone calls, texts and activity on social media impacts on directly on Kiwis with two new laws being hurriedly pushed through out parliament.

Reports say the US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting metadata on tens of millions of US citizens on phone calls. And it has now been confirmed  that NSA also uses a program called PRISM to access extensive user content  held by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple: although targeted at non-US citizens, it includes content for US citizens too.

Submissions on both the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Bill and the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill are due next Thursday 13 June.

The Government must allow more time for submissions to allow citizens and organisations and the telecommunications and IT industry more time to consider the implications and make submissions.

Read the rest of the blog post here:

http://blog.labour.org.nz/2013/06/09/too-close-for-comfort-is-the-gcsb-spying-on-us/

Clare Curran

MP for Dunedin South

Authorised by Clare Curran, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

ENDS

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