Originally Posted by
elZorro
Iceman, you really should do your research before clogging up the thread with untruths. I was casually reading the Waikato Times this morning and there was an article about it. In fact, it was only in 2009 that NZ ramped up its policy on spying on near neighbours to "full-take collection - so all communications from the region were being hovered in by the GCSB". This means phone calls, cellular traffic, emails, web content, radio, TV etc, I would assume.
It would be illegal if NZ was spying on Niue or the Cook Islands for example, because they are NZ Citizens. They could spy on Tonga or Samoa, and of course there is French Polynesia and New Caledonia, of interest.
So this furore is a result John Key's government seeking to curry favour with the USA.