A New Zealand High Court judge has ruled that Dotcom is not allowed to have access to recordings of his personal communications that were illegally intercepted by the New Zealand spy agency Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) during its investigation into him.
The surveillance was requested by the US government as part of the Five Eyes intelligence agreement, which was investigating Dotcom for copyright infringement regarding his cloud locker website Megaupload.

However, one interesting point that has come to light is the exact time frame that the GCSB spied on Dotcom’s communication, which is far longer than previously stated. The New Zealand government previously said in court that the surveillance was carried out between 16 December 2011 and 20 January 2012.

Yet in his ruling, Justice Gilbert stated that the GCSB had “has admitted unlawfully intercepting private communications of Kim and Mona Dotcom (the Dotcoms) and Bram van der Kolk during the period from 16 December 2011 to 22 March 2012”.
Did the prime minister know?

After the GCSB admitted that the interception of private communications of the Dotcom family were illegal, former Prime Minister Sir John Key issued an apology to Dotcom, however it seems that the spying went on for far longer.

“When does it stop? How many times can the government lie to the courts about what they have done to my family?,” Dotcom told IBTimes UK.

“They used my mobile phone as an open microphone so they were listening to everything that was happening in my life 24/7, every day for over three months.

“It’s quite a disingenuous apology if this has gone on much longer than they admitted, and surely
the prime minister at the time would have been told about this. How come only now the truth comes out at a secret proceeding that my lawyers were not even allowed to attend?”

Dotcom says that he believes the New Zealand government is continuing to act unlawfully in the way it is handling his lawsuit over the illegal surveillance.

Concerns over corruption

“The Attorney General is the GCSB minister. He’s also the defendant in my case against the government. After Justice Gilbert had our GCSB hearing, the Attorney General promoted the High Court judge to the Court of Appeal, before the judge came out with the recent judgement giving the Attorney General a victory,” he said.

“In any other country this would be called an obvious case of corruption.”

Dotcom says that the New Zealand government has already been found to have acted unlawfully while investigating him for copyright infringement by the courts seven times, yet proceedings to extradite him to the US continue without any consequences being dealt to the New Zealand government.
“Lies upon lies, one unlawful action after the other. It seems like there is one law for us, the people, and a different law for the government. Imagine you gave a false affidavit to the court in order to cover-up the real scale of your unlawful conduct — you would go to jail for that. It’s a crime. But it seems to be OK if the government does it, again and again,” he said.

Dotcom is considering his legal options, and he wants the New Zealand Supreme Court to take a closer look into the GCSB’s actions, as it considers how next to proceed in the extradition case against him.

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Speaking to students during a national “open lesson” from the city of Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country that takes the lead in the sphere of computer-based artificial intelligence (AI) will rule.
“Artificial intelligence is the future not only of Russia but of all of mankind,” said Putin. “There are huge opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to foresee today.”
“Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world,” he said, adding that it would be better to prevent any particular “pair of hands” from achieving a monopoly in the field.
If Russia becomes the leader in the development of artificial intelligence, “we will share our technology with the rest of the world, like we are doing now with atomic and nuclear technology,” said Putin.
More than a million schoolchildren around Russia were expected to watch the televised open lesson online, titled “Russia Focused on the Future,” according to the Kremlin.
Participants in the lesson also watched videos about the large-scale innovative projects, including the development of a new generation of nuclear-powered icebreakers and a heavy-class space launch center.
The words of the Russian President echo what scientists in Russia and around the world have been mulling over for quite some time.
Work on developing drones and vehicles for military and civilian usage is well under way in Russia, according to state media.
The Russian military is also developing robots, anti-drone systems, and cruise missiles that would be able to analyze radars and make decisions on the altitude, speed and direction of their flight, according to state media.
While in Yaroslavl, Putin didn’t miss the opportunity to show off his hockey skills during a visit to a new school. Putin attended a training session of the children’s hockey team, talked to the young players and played some hockey himself.

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