Wednesday, September 30, 2026

OIA reveals plan to share Kiwis’ criminal records with foreign agencies shelved

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Documents released under the Official Information Act have revealed New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the UK and US have explored expanding their existing biometric-sharing arrangements to allow foreign border agencies to check citizens’ criminal convictions using fingerprints.

However, NZ agencies found there was “no basis under current legislation” to allow overseas authorities to query NZ Police or court conviction information for immigration purposes.

No information was shared during the exploratory work, and Migration 5 heads shelved the proposal in April.

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  1. The globalists in NZ and AU already share a ton of information about us. If the public knew and understood the implications, they would be shocked. A lot of 5 Eyes “data” is handled in Australia because of its weak human rights laws (well they don’t really have any).

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