March 09, 2015
Flavell says Turia phone tapped
Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell says people are just going to have to get used to being spied on.
The latest trove of documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden shows that since National was first elected the Government Communications Security Bureau has started collecting all phone, fax, email and internet traffic from New Zealand’s pacific nations and forwarding it to the United States National Security Agency.
Mr Flavell says everyone spies on everyone else.
He says New Zealand and Pacific politicians should realise there is nothing private about public life.
"It was clear in terms of the things that happened over the Dirty Politics (book) and even prior to that, the issues coming through Peter Dunne. that everything we do is under scrutiny whether that be out in the public or in private and certainly around parliament buildings as well. And indeed when we first started in the Maori Party there was every possibility that people were spying on Tariana because there were some taps on the phone," he says.
Te Ururoa Flavell compared the GCSB’s collect it all approach to the way supermarkets track customer’s buying preferences.
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