Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Surveillance

  • US ship visits are about compliance, not maturity

    Via Radio NZ: On Thursday, United States Vice President Joe Biden confirmed during a meeting with Prime Minister John Key in Auckland that America would send a ship to the…

  • Campbell Live on the GCSB

    Continuing my commemoration of Campbell Live’s commitment to serious investigative reporting of New Zealand current affairs, instead of watching goddamned Road Cops. Tonight: honouring a current affairs show which bothered to unpack…

  • Snowden, surveillance, dick pics

    I’m late to the party on this most excellent Last Week Tonight segment on surveillance, Edward Snowden, and whether, right now, a US government employee is looking at your dick…

  • The definition of irony …

    … surely, must be Peter Dunne complaining (a) that the government hasn’t fulfilled its promises to him and (b) about the security of metadata: “The question that the Law Commission…

  • QOTD: anonymous ex-TSA manager on behavioural profiling

    As reported in The Intercept, a refreshingly frank take on a facet of modern “security” measures in airports: A second former Behavior Detection Officer manager, who also asked not to…