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jfc
The “Five Eyes” concept has to be the dumbest, most transparent example of the “I’m not touching you” defense to charges of constitution circumvention.
Literally word for word my first thought.
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This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone… The five eyes (and nine eyes) nations all share data about their residents in the name of “stopping terrorism”.
stopping terrorism
More like I’ll spy on your people, you spy on mine (which is illegal / unpopular for me), swapsies.
Well hey, at least our rights-obliterating global surveillance apparatus is already named like the bad guys in a stupid action movie!
Every right they take will be used against us
I believe Canada is also introducing legislation to increase the amount of data on its citizens that it shares with the USA. In the current climate these moves seem crazy. But I guess only fascists and billionaires (and billionaire fascists) get to decide what happens.
Crikey
Why?
Because we’ll always be too scared to say no to the US. We’re their bitch at this point. We’re a little less loud than they are, but we’re just as fucked up where it counts.
Inshallah we see the fall of the entire anglosphere in our lifetimes.
Palantir is hungry for more data.
*skynet
Palantir is hungry for deez nuts.
I’ve visited the US 3 times, they’ve got all mine already.
Not lots of detail, probably just photos and fingerprints for Australians arriving in the US.
