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Committee considers access to swipe card data

Hackers attack spy site

Worldwide activist group Anonymous is believed to be behind a hack attack on the Government Communications Security Bureau website on Friday.

GCSB website attacked by hackers today

The Government Communications Security Bureau website was attacked by hackers earlier today.

Banks: Thorn 'pushed' over GCSB leak

Former head of Parliamentary Service Geoff Thorn, has refused to answer MPs' questions about whether he was told to resign over his role in the GCSB leak inquiry.

Claire Trevett: PM turns dead snapper into red herring

The snapper comparison set a lovely trap for Labour leader David Shearer, who obliged by falling into it, writes Claire Trevett.

Is NZ a safer place with the GCSB law?

Let us know Your Views and vote on whether you think NZ a safer place with the changes to the GCSB law, which passed at its third reading in Parliament.

Ministers hit out at Key's leak inquiry

Senior cabinet ministers Judith Collins and Anne Tolley have hit out at Prime Minister John Key's inquiry into the leak of a report on spy agency the GCSB, with Ms Collins saying it treated ministers' privacy with contempt.

PM's role central in Snowden affair

Rodney Harrison: Wholesale spy power is precisely what GCSB bill means for Kiwis

On television this week Prime Minister John Key tried to assure the public it was "totally incorrect" that "the Government effectively through GCSB will be able to wholesale spy on New Zealanders".

Labour, Greens condemn Key pledge

Labour and the Greens have strongly condemned the Prime Minister’s latest statement on how he plans to grant interception warrants under the new GCSB law.

Key pledges to restrict spy warrants

John Key says he will restrict warrants granted to the spy agency so it can't initially look at the content of New Zealanders' communications.

Gwynne Dyer: Spying mess will change internet

The standard internet routing protocol sends messages not by the shortest route, but by the fastest and least congested, writes Gwynne Dyer.

GCSB snapper (tough catch)

Crumbling from the inside

Rodney Hide: Bags writing the movie script...

I am struggling, despite my best efforts, to work myself up into much of a lather over a journalist's phone log and emails being handed across by mistake to a Prime Ministerial inquiry.

Spy access to NZ used as bargaining tool

The ability for US intelligence agencies to access internet data was used as a bargaining tool by a Telecom-owned company trying to keep down the cost of the undersea cable from New Zealand.