Snowden: NSA 'collecting masses of data in New Zealand'

Former National Security Agency (NSA) systems analyst-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden has said the US agency is collecting mass surveillance data on New Zealanders through its XKeyscore system.

Speaking via video link from Russia to hundreds of people at Auckland’s Town Hall, Snowden also claimed the NSA has set up a facility in the South Pacific nation’s largest city to tap into vast amounts of data.