"Project SPEARGUN in progress" "Key Activities in Progress: Access ... New Zealand: Partner cable access program achieves phase 1" "New Zealand: GCSB's cable

"Project SPEARGUN in progress" "Key Activities in Progress: Access ... New Zealand: Partner cable access program achieves phase 1" "New Zealand: GCSB's cable access program SPEARGUN phase 1; awaiting new GCSB Act expected July 2013; first metadata probe mid 2013." Yeah if you play word games the NSA isn't 'collecting' everything either. Since 'collecting' means a human inspecting the content. Mass collection and permanent storage, automated reasoning and algorithmic processing for keywords/content/intentionality IS surveillance or at least that's a useful definition, anyway.