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March 28, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand investigative journalist and author says the US spy system hosted by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) appears to be a controversial intelligence system used in global capture-kill operations. Writing a commentary for RNZ News today, Nicky Hager, author of Secret Power, a 1996 book on New Zealand’s role ... <a title="Investigative author says GCSB-hosted spy system likely to be one used in capture-kill ops" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/investigative-author-says-gcsb-hosted-spy-system-likely-to-be-one-used-in-capture-kill-ops/" aria-label="Read more about Investigative author says GCSB-hosted spy system likely to be one used in capture-kill ops">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Te Kuaka, an independent foreign policy advocacy group with a strong focus on the Pacific, has called for urgent changes to the law governing New Zealand’s security agency. “Pacific countries will be asking legitimate questions about whether . . . spying in the Pacific was happening out of NZ,” it said today. ... <a title="Te Kuaka calls for urgent law change on spy agency, warns over Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/22/te-kuaka-calls-for-urgent-law-change-on-spy-agency-warns-over-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Te Kuaka calls for urgent law change on spy agency, warns over Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato The release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) this week is the final piece in a defence and security puzzle that marks a genuine shift towards more open and public discussion of these crucial policy areas. Together with July’s strategic foreign policy ... <a title="Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public is timely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/13/out-of-the-shadows-why-making-nzs-security-threat-assessment-public-is-timely/" aria-label="Read more about Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public is timely">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand’s cyber security agency believes China has been behind numerous hack attacks spanning years. The government joined Western allies and Japan in calling out Beijing for so-called state-sponsored hacks, including a major incursion in February when Microsoft email servers were targeted. The US has charged four Chinese nationals — three security officials ... <a title="NZ cyber agency chief worried China hacks exploiting security weakness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/nz-cyber-agency-chief-worried-china-hacks-exploiting-security-weakness/" aria-label="Read more about NZ cyber agency chief worried China hacks exploiting security weakness">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
INDEPTH: By Guyon Espiner, RNZ News investigative reporter, with contributor John Daniell New Zealand has lost some of its independence within the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and been “drawn in a lot closer” to the US-led spy network, former Prime Minister Helen Clark says. She made the comments in new RNZ podcast The Service, which ... <a title="NZ’s independence from Five Eyes has slipped, says former PM Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/nzs-independence-from-five-eyes-has-slipped-says-former-pm-clark/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s independence from Five Eyes has slipped, says former PM Clark">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2019
Political Roundup: Will the Government fix spying in the public service? by Dr Bryce Edwards The week before Christmas was dominated by what may actually have been the most important political issue of the year in New Zealand – revelations that government agencies have spied on New Zealanders through the use of private investigators. The ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Will the Government fix spying in the public service?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/17/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-will-the-government-fix-spying-in-the-public-service/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Will the Government fix spying in the public service?">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2018
Political Roundup: Huawei decision is the price of being in Five Eyes by Dr Bryce Edwards John Key was once very candid in explaining the realpolitik reason New Zealand had to send troops to assist the US war on terror: it was simply “the price of the club”. He was speaking of the intelligence alliance ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Huawei decision is the price of being in Five Eyes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/30/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-huawei-decision-is-the-price-of-being-in-five-eyes/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Huawei decision is the price of being in Five Eyes">Read more</a>
