[Infowarrior] - PRISM data used for (c) bust of Dotcom?

[Richard Forno]

(And thus, we apparently enter the slippery slope of abusing secretive "national security tools" to enforce excessive and overly-broad commercial copyright interests, which is a *very* dangerous thing. --rick)


NZ police affidavits show use of PRISM for surveillance

By Juha Saarinen on Aug 23, 2013 5:46 AM (16 hours ago) 

Police affidavits related to the raid on Kim Dotcom's Mega mansion appear to show that New Zealand police and spy agencies are able to tap directly into United States surveillance systems such as PRISM to capture email and other traffic.

The discovery was made by blogger Keith Ng who wrote on his On Point blog that the Organised and Financial Crime Agency New Zealand (OFCANZ) requested assistance from the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), the country's signals intelligence unit, which is charge of surveilling the Pacific region under the Five-Eyes agreement.

A list of so-called selectors or search terms were provided to GCSB by the police [PDF, redacted] for the surveillance of emails and other data traffic generated by Dotcom and his Megaupload associates.

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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/354407,nz-police-affidavits-show-use-of-prism-for-surveillance.aspx

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