These two points are the most horrifying in my eyes, being enough for the PM to install himself as king by having complete surveillance over all the kingmaker positions within parliament. Expose a marital affair here, schedule meetings during a dental appointment there, and it's enough leverage to apply huge influence over the laws that are created. Now that it's completely legal, there's nothing anybody can do to stop it.

After the US and UK have been revealed as full of state-sponsored security holes, and the software patent idea being banned earlier this year, I was considering moving back to NZ. But now that this law has passed, what's the difference? NZ's just as full of spies, except with very few jobs and slow, expensive internet.