Kim Dotcom and the Government

The whole issue of the GCSB bill became apparent when they had illegally spied on Kim Dotcom and later raided his mansion in January 2012. Although the GCSB had spied illegally, there were no charges laid, while a illegal interception had occurred police investigation states no one will be prosecuted because there is no evidence of any intention to act illegally. In response to the findings there was disappointments because no one was held accountable for the breach. Something can be said when the Government spies can break the law and not account for it, it also appears to be different standards for Government spies compared to the rest of New Zealand in terms of obeying the law. Kim Dotcom claims that the Prime Minister wanted to change the GCSB bill so that he can lawfully spy on him, while Key states that even with the law change it would still be illegal. The bill will allow GCSB to lawfully spy on New Zealanders when its helping another agency that has acquired a warrant to help with whatever activity they need help with. Under the proposed law, if the police have reason to believe a serious enough offence is being committed they can get a interception warrant and ask the GCSB to spy of the target with their special equipment. In this respect, Kim Dotcom is correct about the GCSB being able to spy on him lawfull

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