article_snippet: New Zealand is conducting mass spying on its South Pacific neighbours then passing The information collected to a US-led intelligence alliance, media reports citing leaked documents said Thursday.
article_snippet: New Zealand snoops on the phone calls, emails, Internet browsing sessions and online chats of government ministers and senior officials in South Pacific island nations, including French territories in the region, the New Zealand Herald reported.
article_snippet: In effect, the New Zealand spy agency gathers information on the country's nearest neighbours to help secure the New Zealand spy agency place in the US-led alliance,' the New Zealand Herald said after conducting a joint investigation into the leaks with US-based website The Intercept.
article_snippet: New Zealand is conducting mass spying on New Zealand South Pacific neighbours then passing information on the country's nearest neighbours to a US-led intelligence alliance, media reports say citing leaked documents .
article_snippet: Nations reportedly subjected to New Zealand wholesale snooping included Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, the Solomons Islands, the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Nauru and France's overseas territories New Caledonia and French Polynesia. '
highlights_snippet: New Zealand reportedly spying on New Zealand South Pacific neighbours .
  
highlights_snippet: The countries being spied on include Tonga, Fiji, Samoa and Cook Islands .
  