Tag: Security and Intelligence

 

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security must look into the recent high profile cases involving the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and its vetting procedures, Green Party Defence spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

The Green Party will support the Privacy (Cross-border Information) Amendment Bill. It is driven by the correct concern of the European Union to have private information on databases etc. protected when that data goes to or through other countries. It is great that the European Union is leading the world on this issue and pulling countries like New Zealand in behind.

KEITH LOCKE to the Minister of Agriculture: Will he ask the Pork Industry Board if they were aware that Thomson and Clark Investigations were collecting information for them on animal rights campaigner Rochelle Rees by means of a tracking device planted under her car; if not, why not?

An inordinate amount of Government time and energy is being misspent on reforming the ‘claim of right’ law after its use in the trial of the Waihopai Three, Green Party Human Rights spokesperson Keith Locke said today.

The most inadequate parts of the Budget Estimates of Appropriations are the sections on the intelligence services, the Security Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Security Bureau.

Speech to the Close Waihopai rally in Blenheim on 23 January 2010 Keith Locke MP 23rd January, 2010 

Keith discusses the erosion of civil liberties in recent legislation.

New Zealand’s independent foreign policy would suffer if it entered into a joint military task force with Australia, the Green Party’s Defence spokesperson Keith Locke said today.