First confirmed case of PRISM surveilance was against a democracy rights activist in New Zealand

[thewayne]

PRISM is/was an NSA intelligence-gathering program. It has been widely speculated that friendly governments spy on other countries so that said country doesn't violate laws about spying on their own people. And this happened in NZ. The activist was from Fiji, and was very active in trying to get democracy for Fiji and get rid of the prime

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[porsupah]

It's a loathsome state of affairs, and sadly, not one that any Anglophone (or indeed, any) politician seems to want to address. Understandable, I suppose - surveillance plays on the popular stage bitterly disappointingly well, to a degree writers of the mid-20th Century could scarcely have imagined or believed. And as much of a hawk as Clinton is, I certainly don't see her reining in the NSA, or doing away with their part in this "oh, well, we can't spy on X, but hey, how about you guys do it for us?" extrajudicial game they so mockingly play.