What the GCSB are really saying
GCSB decides it no longer needs warrants to access Five Eyes intelligence
Electronic spy agency GCSB has decided it no longer needs a warrant to request intelligence from its Five Eyes partners.
The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has decided that under the law, it doesn’t need a warrant to obtain intelligence from partner agencies in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, but it will continue to obtain warrants when requesting intelligence on New Zealand citizens.
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Brendan Horsley raised concern about the “significant issue” in his latest annual report, published on Wednesday, questioning whether there would be sufficient oversight and ministerial supervision of the GCSB’s intelligence gathering from partner agencies.
Horsley also said the Security Intelligence Service (SIS), which conducts human intelligence or physical spying, had “rapidly expanded” its collection of intelligence data as it conducted “target discovery”.
This flew under the Covid radar but what the GCSB are really saying here through coded language is that NZ will now subcontract its vetting of Chinese students and visitors to the other 4 spy agencies to try and catch out obvious spies.
The legal fig leaf for this mass vetting of Chinese nationals is the pretense that information sourced from Australia, Britain, America and Canada will have been collected legally.
This is a total fiction post the Snowden revelations which revealed the NSA collected information illegally on an every day basis!
By sidestepping the legal obligations of a warrant, the GCSB have allowed the mass surveillance of anyone entering NZ and no one really noticed.
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I don’t think they want to catch the spies because they are the spies. These are the little minded men with short dicks and the passionless women with all the class of a shopping trolley just waiting for your name to appear on one of their lists so you can be persecuted:
https://talkliberation.substack.com/p/wikileaksjulianassangeinvestigation
Not a good move. If they want the help to catch the spies they should still need to have both a warrant and paper trail so that mis-use can be identified. And increasingly it is not about spies… as we see Green peace supporters, Green Party members, who have been spied on, who were not spies.
It is a big issue to sidestep the warrant and I worry about the potential negative repercussions in the future.
yes, well, they haven’t thought about the effects of removing the non-return valve…data leaks abound globally and yet our five/six eyes claim surveillance rights for who, really? When the Israeli army arrest a family because a six year old dropped a teaspoon on their roof and it was interpreted as stone throwing, what insidious amplification does this demonstrate? If a reading from a ‘g-tec’ type headset/cap array can accurately copy and extract thoughts, dreams and plans from a person’s brain there is a contemporary corollary, where the brain is also programmed- nature hates a vacuum, right?
It is a big issue to sidestep the warrant and I worry about the potential negative repercussions in the future.
At this point our only hope is some really really strong solar flares. Because the average sleepy hobbit just don’t give a rats.
If it makes it easier for them to find agents of China’s government, sounds good
yesss.