There are events unfolding in New Zealand that are pushing forward with questionable surveillance laws despite the NSA scandals. The NZ government wants to legalize collection of meta-data about citizens of the nation with no rules or courts that would be able to interfere, similar to the behaviors of the NSA in the USA. We need to stop this but the government isn't listening despite 85% of NZers being against the change.

The government claims that the "opposition is for the sake of opposition" and that we have "nothing to hide" but the actions of the NSA have illustrated already how this is a problem and now it's about to happen here.

We don't have the EFF fighting for us. We don't have many people who even understand this. If we could get this on the world stage, we might be able to get the government here to listen. If anyone can help with getting the word out, please do. We're losing the privacy battle and nobody cares. Please help spread the world.

Here is some background:

A TL;DR on the proposed changes: http://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1iuu43/can_i_get_a_tldr_on_the_gcsb_and_tics_bills/

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/326441001-gcsb-bill--pm-reckons-people-are-on-his-side

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/13/07/22/239250/new-zealand-government-about-to-legalize-spying-on-nz-citizens

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/politics/8953442/Spy-law-opposition-for-the-sake-of-politics-Key

http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2013/07/23/gordon-campbell-on-peter-dunnes-illusory-gains-on-the-gcsb-bill/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8951548/High-profile-GCSB-bill-opposition?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter