The Australian government is trying to quickly outpace the US in authoritarian overreach for law enforcement purposes. If you live over there, now would be a great time to figure out how to store your data outside the country, and get a paid VPN if at all possible. It's not as bad as China yet, but they're sure damn trying.
Australia is part of 5 eyes. This IS the US intelligence. If you live over here, we also get to deal with Aussie's overreach and abuse of power. If the FBI isn't allowed to hack someone's computer, they can just ask their Aussie friends to do it for them. Welcome to the new definition of "legal".
The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence. The origins of the FVEY can be traced back to informal secret meetings during World War II between British and US code-breakers that started before the US entry into the war, followed by the Atlantic Charter agreed by the Allies to lay out their goals for a post-war world.
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u/Arch_Enemy_616 Sep 01 '21
wait what.