Time to revisit cyber mass surveillance - Simon Bridges
Simon Bridges says it might be time to revisit an internet surveillance programme canned by the previous National-led Government.
Project Speargun, publicly revealed by US National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2014, was cancelled in 2013 according to then-Prime Minister John Key for being too intrusive.
"It was set too broadly," he told NZME in 2017. "What we ultimately did, when it comes to Speargun, in my opinion, I said it's set too far. I don't even want to see the business case."
Snowden claimed Project Speargun would have allowed the Government to tap into New Zealanders' communications.
Bridges, current National Party leader, has called for a royal commission of inquiry into the security and intelligence failings that allowed a white supremacist to amass an arsenal and shoot 100 people in Christchurch earlier this month, killing 50 of them. The alleged gunman wasn't on any watchlists here or in his native Australia.
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