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Yeah well YOU (and your fellow citizens) best be very, very afraid of the Five Eyes Intelligence alliance.
OPINION: Five eyesBy J.R. Shermack, for tbnewswatch.com
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Nobody seems at all concerned about the spying or the invasion of privacy but they really want to know who let the dogs out.
It’s a matter of national security for the country and pride for the National Security Agency.
That’s why the NSA, in the name of global security, organized the Five Eyes – a group of nations (U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Canada) to keep an electronic eye on things.Some say this relationship was
created with the idea of evading domestic laws that prohibit national governments from spying on their own citizens.
But since the Internet respects no international boundaries, information travels in a borderless, virtual world.
Member countries can ask one of the other four “Eyes” to do their covert surveillance for them. It’s highly questionable, but probably legal.It would be harder to accomplish without the cooperation of the Internet service providers – AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, PalTalk, Yahoo and others.
The tech giants as you might expect, denied any knowledge of Prism.
However, the leaked NSA documents say this program operates with the “assistance of communications providers in the U.S.”
Clearly, somebody is lying.
You may wonder why Canada belongs in this exclusive group. Is Stephen Harper somehow involved in this scheme? Well, we don’t know because that’s a secret, too. However, here’s what we do know.
Canada accomplishes its Five Eyes objectives (secretly) through something called Communications Security Establishment Canada. This agency has a long-standing relationship with the NSA.CSEC is
a rapidly expanding federal agency. Its budget has doubled since 9/11. A new $900 million headquarters is under construction.
This agency doesn’t comment on its methods, operations or capabilities. It also remains silent about the activities of the other Eyes.
Some Canadians are nervous about an agency like this with very little oversight and no public accountability. My fellow conspiracy theorists and I are alarmed.
Right now 90 per cent of Canadian digital information is routed through exchange points in the U.S. For example, even email sent within Toronto is likely going through Chicago first.
Along the way it passes many checkpoints and electronic filters operated by a shadowy group of American spies.
As far as the U.S. is concerned, Canadians are as foreign and subversive as anybody. Anything we do on the Internet requires constant, covert surveillance.But maybe, like many other bloggers and googlers worldwide, you just don’t worry about the Five Eyes or invasion of privacy or rights and freedoms.
You may prefer to let Harper’s government handle those for you.
Read more here:
http://www.tbnewswatch.com/opinion/284976/OPINION-Five-eyes