NZ a History of mass surveillance

The NSA won't approve NZ to have ultra-fast broadband until.....

In fact if it can't be monitored we have been unable to develop it.

At one stage to simplify matters a large chunk of our email handling was moved offshore

"Telecom's outsourcing of Xtra's email service to Yahoo started in 2007 and has been plagued by issues since." NZHerald

Even while this service caused NZ users an experience between chaos and hell , NZ'ers only had one alternative and that was to change ISP's or to use a foreign based emailing service such as hotmail or gmail.

Once NZ emails were going to the US. Yahoo was forced with a massive fine over whether it would allow the NSA access via the PRISM project.

Here in New Zealand the situation was more subtle, where the government had to pretend that telecom was not a monopoly and allowed Telecom to extort the worlds most expensive communications charges from their customer base.

As technology changes so has the spying abilities. However the current government has been faced with a massive dilemma in regards to the roll out of ultra-fast broadband. This is the spying facilities would need to be expanded for both the storage and filtering of the data. Strangely enough the governments own RMA act has stopped them from building the installation.

So until the RMA process goes through, the government can't build their data housing building.
Until the data-housing building is up and equipment working we can't all have ultra-fast broadband.