White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group

2 years ago by RandAlThor to c/world

Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country Donald Trump has threatened to annex
Skullgrid 89 points 2 years ago

This is great news for Canadians, meaning they'll be free from dragnet surveilance, as the five eyes monitoring system relies on other countries to spy on their citizens for them as a legal loophole.

Way to go trump, keep going, dismantle the five eyes entirely.

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Tja 18 points 2 years ago

Oh, no!

-Vladimir, stroking his white cat

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someguy3 9 points 2 years ago

Huh? The other 4 can still spy on Canadians. They just won't share the info with Canada.

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jaybone 21 points 2 years ago

So Canadian citizens are safe from prosecution then by their own government.

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someguy3 2 points 2 years ago

They can and will be prosecuted through legal means. As for illegal means, if it's a big enough deal you can bet the other 4 countries will accidentally leak the info.

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blakenong 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah I dunno how anyone thinks this is a good thing. I mean, the destruction of the alliance wouldn’t be bad, but removing Canada from an existing one is just declaring info war.

This phrase is way overused, for good reason, but I’ll use it again: I fucking hate this timeline.

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commander 0 points 2 years ago

as the five eyes monitoring system relies on other countries to spy on their citizens

But useful idiots kept warning about China spying on me through Huawei without evidence.

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Laser 4 points 2 years ago

Don't make the mistake to think that reliance on China is not a security threat. It might not impact privacy, but at least from what I heard here, big network operators are unable to maintain their networks without support from the hardware vendors, and not just in the sense that they need updates, patches etc, but that the OEMs rather do everything and the providers just slap their label on it.

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Joncash2 2 points 2 years ago

You are right, USA being bad does not make China good. All this shows is USA was always bad. It's just mask off now. Every nation should be looking to independently secure their networks now. No one can be trusted. But if we are honest, it was always this way, the world just got complacent.

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Ledericas 1 point 2 years ago

Now us has trump spying on them for russia

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PugJesus 49 points 2 years ago

The US should be axed from the alliance at this point, honestly. No intel shared with us can be trusted to be secret, even to our 'enemies'.

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MrNesser 5 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised if filters are in place for sharing Intel

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RangerJosey 36 points 2 years ago

Lmao. Yes. By all means dismantle the giant multinational CIA of the west.

Great idea. Fantastic. Love to see it.

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MyDogLovesMe 5 points 2 years ago

It’s what Putin commands of his asset Trump.

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the_crotch 0 points 2 years ago

If what's good for Putin is also good for the people then I don't give a shit that it's good for Putin.

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RandAlThor 34 points 2 years ago

First, US wanted UK out of five eyes. Now Canada. Pretty soon, it'll be one eye.

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originalucifer 31 points 2 years ago

yep, the united states is the brown eye of the world

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yunxiaoli 24 points 2 years ago

Best thing Trump's ever done, if his team can do it.

Five eyes is why your government legally has real time data on everything you're doing regardless of local privacy laws.

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FauxLiving 2 points 2 years ago

Exactly.

They're not spying on their own citizens, that would be illegal. They're simply allowing other countries to spy on you (legal) and then they "share" data with each other.

The net result is every FVEY agency doing an end run around laws that exist to prevent government intelligence from spying on its own citizens.

Add in data brokers who buy all your data stolen by Facebook and Google and re-package it for sale and Big Brother can have all of the data that they would get from spying on you without being bothered by silly laws that prevent them from spying on you (they didn't, the UK did).

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someguy3 1 point 2 years ago

I could have sworn I saw UK too, but can't find it anymore.

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nogooduser 1 point 2 years ago

It was in response to the UK trying to get Apple to put a back door in their advanced encryption for all Apple customers, not just UK citizens.

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TrojanRoomCoffeePot 19 points 2 years ago

Something tells me that an intelligence community alliance between the U.S., the U.K., and three former United Kingdom colonies could well do without the United States, just sayin'.

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oddsys 15 points 2 years ago

Australia as well please, get us out of this stupid security pact

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres 9 points 2 years ago

I’m starting to think this Trump character isn’t on the up-and-up.

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HighFructoseLowStand 4 points 2 years ago

If they're going loose an eye, it seems likely it'll be the orange one.

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independantiste 2 points 2 years ago

WHAT?? YES!!!

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timewarp 2 points 2 years ago

Gotta make room for Russia huh?

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