1PRISM is a top-secret programme that The National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden says monitors not only the flow of global traffic between foreign citizens on the internet, but the actual content of the messages. Palantir is the United States-based data mining company that is currently advertising for an analyst to be embedded in the New Zealand Government to provide direct support to a range of 'operationally relevant clients to develop intelligence against the highest priority threats to national security'. The news about PRISM and Palantir has New Zealand's information technology groups calling for more time to consider new legislation governing the activities of our own Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB). It also has the Labour opposition making the unusual move of breaking ranks with the Government over an international security issue and calling for an inquiry into New Zealand's involvement in the Five Eyes Surveillance Partnership with the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia. Analysis.

2Palantir is the United States-based data mining company that is currently advertising for an analyst to be embedded in the New Zealand Government to provide direct support to a range of 'operationally relevant clients to develop intelligence against the highest priority threats to national security'. However, it has another major international task - it has teamed with Google to help a range of non-Government agencies fight the cross-border traffic of men, women and children forced into prostitution, slave labour and organ harvesting. Interview with an expert on the multi-billion dollar international criminal networks organising the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children in over a dozen countries.