Five Eyes Reaction
The Five Eyes first of all is an intelligence corporation consisting of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It was established after WW2 and is used to share intelligence, resources, and sensitive information to ensure security for all 5 countries and help improve combating global threats. These main 5 eventually evolve into the 9 eyes which includes Denmark, France, Netherlands, and Norway. Eventually, it gets known to be called the 14 eyes with the inclusion of Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Sweden along with the original 9 that were already part of the group. With a group this big, it has also sparked debates in several countries about national security. I personally think that having countries sharing personal information with others is not a great idea because that could easily backfire on us, and we don't know whether what they are sharing is going against the Constitution.
A lot of the
benefits of having the 5 eyes has to do with the benefit of national security and increasing defense in these nations, along with being able to share private information with one another and help deal with any major problems that may come up in the future that could pose a national threat. There is also the note that they are not allowed to spy on each other and instead, share information with each other. They also intercept information transmitted online or over phone.
Now when it comes to concerns with the 5 eyes, there are many that I can list. First of all, its already violating our own personal privacy as people. Some areas ban the usage of
VPN's which is how we can help protect our privacy from the 5 eyes. With them collecting information and private data from us and then even sharing that with other countries, there is no guarantee that we are ever safe from other countries as well as our own with the spread of private information. Another issue that strikes me is that even though they aren't supposed to spy on each other, there are already leaks showing that they have been spying on each other for a while and taking private information from each other. This could also impact our freedom of speech to a certain degree too. Knowing that anything we say online is monitored not just from our own country but also from third party countries makes it to where people aren't going to want to say anything political either. All of this information comes from the
Snowden leaks.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I believe that the 5 eyes have strayed off from their initial intents of national security and improving defense for all of their nations. Now I believe that they are still in cohorts with each other but in a very questionable manner where they have already been taking information from each other and using for themselves. I believe that no amount of information we put in the internet will be safe with the 5 eyes being able to see personal information that is used online.
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