TY - JOUR
T1 - National security and surveillance
T2 - the public impact of the GCSB Amendment Bill and the Snowden revelations in New Zealand
AU - Patman, Robert
AU - Southgate, Laura
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Intelligence and National Security on 20 Oct 2015, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02684527.2015.1095968
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In New Zealand, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extraordinary scope of the National Security Agency’s surveillance capabilities and the facilitating role of the Five Eyes alliance converged with increasing public concerns about the Government Communications Security Bureau Amendment and Related Legislation Bill in 2013. This generated an intense and sustained debate in the country about surveillance policy. It was a debate in which Prime Minister John Key has featured prominently. While apparently unable to clearly refute Snowden’s claims concerning mass surveillance in New Zealand, Key’s vigorous public interventions helped counter the short-term political and diplomatic fallout. However, the long-term impact of public concerns over the surveillance policies of the Key government may be much harder to predict in what is an intimate democracy, and the prospect of substantial political blowback cannot be ruled out.
AB - In New Zealand, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extraordinary scope of the National Security Agency’s surveillance capabilities and the facilitating role of the Five Eyes alliance converged with increasing public concerns about the Government Communications Security Bureau Amendment and Related Legislation Bill in 2013. This generated an intense and sustained debate in the country about surveillance policy. It was a debate in which Prime Minister John Key has featured prominently. While apparently unable to clearly refute Snowden’s claims concerning mass surveillance in New Zealand, Key’s vigorous public interventions helped counter the short-term political and diplomatic fallout. However, the long-term impact of public concerns over the surveillance policies of the Key government may be much harder to predict in what is an intimate democracy, and the prospect of substantial political blowback cannot be ruled out.
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684527.2015.1095968
U2 - 10.1080/02684527.2015.1095968
DO - 10.1080/02684527.2015.1095968
M3 - Article
SN - 0268-4527
VL - 31
SP - 871
EP - 887
JO - Intelligence and National Security
JF - Intelligence and National Security
IS - 6
ER -