New Zealand's biggest telecommunications companies have revealed that spying reforms will allow them to volunteer suspicious information about their customers to spying agencies. Vodafone and Spark say they are not comfortable with the proposal, and they want Parliament to reconsider it. The Government is updating intelligence and security legislation following a wide-ranging review by Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy. Vodafone lead counsel Tom Thurby said he did not expect any New Zealand business to proactively volunteer information if the law change went ahead. Thurby said the Westpac case showed that any exercise of discretion by companies in providing information to authorities was "fraught".

Source: New Zealand Herald October 13, 2016 01:51 UTC