New Zealand’s prime minister was forced on to the defensive on Monday amid a bruising election campaign after Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor turned whistleblower, claimed the country’s spy agency was engaged in mass surveillance of the public.
In an article written for The Intercept website, Mr Snowden said he routinely came across the communications of New Zealanders in his previous work for the US National Security Agency, which used a mass-surveillance tool called Xkeyscore.
New Zealand’s spy agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau, shared the tool, which allowed granular access to communications data, he said.
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