New documents show New Zealand has spied on its neighbours and allies, including countries in the Pacific. What do you think about these latest spying revelations?

Lisa Finlay says it's an 'erosion of our privacy'.

We, as a public, have a right to know that New Zealand engages in wholesale data collection of our neighbours and passes it on to the US and its allies.

That they will have broken New Zealand surveillance laws against New Zealanders travelling in the Pacific is yet another casualty of the complete breach of trust that the New Zealand Government has perpetrated against our Pacific neighbours, and the New Zealand public.

Nothing to hide? If we really have nothing to fear why do we have passwords on computers, on email accounts, on bank accounts? Because a basic tenet of privacy is that we and we alone should have access to not only our most sensitive information but all communications that we choose to conduct in private - posting to the world on Facebook excluded.

Why do we feel it is an insignificant intrusion to know that every keystroke is being recorded and stored in some NSA server accessible to anyone in the Five Eyes alliance?

Because everyone is doing it does not make it right, it makes it a corrupt argument. Hell, let's all go out and have an affair and take illicit drugs because everyone's doing it and nobody's getting hurt.

We are lowering moral and ethical baselines by accepting that the invasion of our own privacy and that of our Pacific partners from wholesale surveillance is an inevitable and necessary sign of the times.

This is not about Nicky Hager, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, etc, they are merely conduits to shed light on what is going on.

Let's talk about it without having to debate its authenticity. No government has disputed this except for New Zealand's.

If we accept this erosion of our privacy then I believe we will pretty much accept anything.

READ MORE:

* Opinion: NZ right to spy on Pacific Island neighbours

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* NZ spied on Pacific neighbours - Greenwald

* Nicky Hager: Kiwis will be 'shocked' by spy claims

* Q&A - Spying and NZ