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From: Matthew Whitehead [mailto:[OIA #1395 email]]
Sent: Thursday, 9 January 2014 12:14 a.m.
To: Information
Subject: Official Information Act request - Whether members of parliament are surveilled

Dear Government Communications Security Bureau,

I would like to make the following two requests under the OIA:

1) Please confirm whether surveillance has been or is being
conducted against any Members of Parliament (hereafter
'MPs') or people who, at the time of surveillance, were
known by your organisation to have registered as candidates for
Parliament either as part of a Party List or for an electorate
(hereafter 'candidates') at the time they were MPs or
candidates, excepting any routine security checks or safety
precautions that these MPs or candidates were notified of. This
need not include any instances when surveillance has stopped upon
or soon after the GCSB becoming aware of an individual's
candidacy.

2) Excepting surveillance for the safety of the MP or candidate
under surveillance, or for the safety of people who may be made a
target on their behalf, I would like to request a summary of any
other purposes information about MPs or candidates is used for, and
under what part of the relevant Act or Acts that surveillance is
authorised.

Yours faithfully,

Matthew Whitehead

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