from the opening-up-a-can-of-worms dept
The latest in the saga of New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) -- their version of the NSA --
illegally spying on Kim Dotcom, is that he's been
cleared to file a lawsuit against the GCSB for its activities
and the GCSB will be told to reveal some of the details of its secret electronic spying setup.
The order for the GCSB to reveal top secret details came as the High
Court at Auckland ruled the spy agency would now sit alongside the
police in a case probing the unlawful search warrant used in the raid on
Dotcom's north Auckland mansion.
Chief high court judge Helen Winkelmann said the GCSB would have to
"confirm all entities" to which it gave information sourced through its
illegal interception of Dotcom's communications.
She said her order included "members of Echelon/Five Eyes, including any
United States authority". The Echelon network is an international
intelligence network to which New Zealand and the United States are
members, along with Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
You have to imagine that New Zealand officials are seriously regretting
falling for the DOJ's version of the Megaupload story without bothering
to actually check the details, huh?
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