New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced in New Zealand giving police and

officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone’s online life.

The measures are the largest expansion of police and SIS surveillance capabilities for decades, and mean that all mobile calls and texts, email, internet surfing and online shopping, chatting and social networking can be monitored anywhere in New Zealand.

The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS or SIS) is an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government.

Police are to use an encrypted digital radio system to prevent people from eavesdropping on their communications. (Radio New Zealand News)

Finally, police forces around the world are realizing how unsafe their internal radio communication is. Any data transmitted on the air needs to be encrypted, let alone real time information about what police officers are doing and where.

Radio scanners are cheap and widely available, and it is really hard to believe that most police departments still use outdate analog systems for day to day operations.