Imagine you’re a New Zealander…How would you react? 
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‘Auckland lawyer Tim McBride, author of the forthcoming New Zealand Civil Rights Handbook, says our politicians had let down New Zealanders when they yielded to the foreign pressure and imported US-style surveillance into New Zealand.
‘He said “monitoring email, internet chatting and Facebook is like the police and SIS planting bugs in every cafe and park. It would probably help solve a few crimes, but the cost is just too great”.
‘The 2004 New Zealand law, which mirrors laws overseas, requires the content of any communication plus “call associated data”, such as times, phone numbers, IP addresses and mobile phone locations, to be able to be copied and sent to the police, SIS or Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) at the time of transmission or “as close as practicable” to that time.
In practice, a specialist said, this means someone’s email can be “at the agency within one or two minutes of it actually being on the wires”’… -full story at stuff.co.nz
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I recall someone saying that David.
That’s one book I regret not having read until now.
Did you know that “1984″ was written as a “to do” list?