Prime Minister John Key says the security services act in the interests of New Zealand
New Zealand is conducting mass surveillance over its Pacific neighbours, reports citing documents leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden say.
Calls, emails and social media messages were being collected from Pacific nations, the New Zealand Herald said.
The data was shared with other members of the “Five Eyes” network – the US, Australia, Britain and Canada.
Mr Snowden leaked a large cache of classified NSA documents in 2013.
The documents published on Thursday reveal that New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) used its Waihopai base in the South Island to spy on allies in the region.
Targets included Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Nauru, Samoa, Vanuatu, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Tonga and French Polynesia.
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