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Newly Disclosed Documents on the Five Eyes Alliance and What They Tell Us about Intelligence-Sharing Agreements

This piece was originally published in Lawfare in April 2018 The United States is party to a number of international intelligence sharing arrangements—one of the most prominent being the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance. Born from spying arrangements forged during World War II, the Five Eyes alliance

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Five Eyes Integration and the Law

Few revelations have been been as troubling for the right to privacy as uncovering the scope of the Five Eyes alliance. The intelligence club made up of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States has integrated its collection efforts, staff, bases, and analysis programs

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Despite Claims of 'Going Dark', Five Eyes More Powerful than Ever

The recent revelations, made possible by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden, of the reach and scope of global surveillance practices have prompted a fundamental re- examination of the role of intelligence services in conducting coordinated cross-border surveillance. The Five Eyes alliance of States –

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Eyes Wide Open

The recent revelations, made possible by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden, of the reach and scope of global surveillance practices have prompted a fundamental re-examination of the role of intelligence services in conducting coordinated cross-border surveillance. The Five Eyes alliance of States –

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On Campaigns of Opposition to ID Card Schemes

Proposals for identity (ID) cards have provoked public outrage and political division in several countries. In this paper Simon Davies analyses the key elements of public opposition to ID Card schemes, and profiles the massive 1987 Australian campaign against a national ID card.

News

9th February 2018

Our response to Australia's proposed reforms of national security legislation

2nd February 2018

Australia’s metadata grab will create modern-day Stasi files

1st November 2017

Privacy International Files Lawsuit To Compel Disclosure Of Secretive 1946 Surveillance Agreement

23rd October 2017

Privacy International Launches International Campaign For Greater Transparency Around Secretive Intelligence Sharing Activities Between Governments

15th October 2015

Australian intelligence revealed to have access to PRISM

17th April 2015

International Intelligence Bullying

15th August 2014

Australian government pushing to expand surveillance, hacking powers

11th June 2014

Is this a club we want to be part of?

Examples of Abuse

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Hidden industry of low-paid workers fuels "AI"

Companies like the Australian data services company Appen are part of a vast, hidden industry of low-paid workers in some of the globe's cheapest labour markets who label images, video, and text to provide the datasets used to train the algorithms that power new bots. Appen, which has 1 million

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