Despite being publicly planned and promoted, the Capitol Hill riot apparently blindsided US intelligence. And that epic failure could now provide a rationale for keeping an even closer eye on citizens' private lives. In a May 3 exclusive, CNN.
So what is Five Eyes? The alliance, officially known as the UKUSA Agreement, is a multilateral grouping that includes not only the United Kingdom and the United States but also Australia, New Zealand and Canada providing information sharing between the countries. The partnership began as an agreement between the UK and the US in 1946 that cemented the sharing of signals intelligence, or information elicited by intercepting communications between people. Information sharing had begun during World War Two as the countries joined forces to try to break Japanese and German codes. Canada joined in 1948. New Zealand and Australia became members in 1956.
NZ’s stance on China has deep implications for ‘Five Eyes’
Wellington has confirmed itself the weak link in the intelligence chain it joined with the US, the UK, Canada and Australia
By Patrick Wintour / The Guardian
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has offended devotees of the Anglosphere by indicating she is not prepared to take her country into the kind of trade war with China that Australia has found itself facing.
Asserting her nation’s sovereignty has potentially deep implications for the “Five Eyes” alliance, the intelligence-sharing partnership that emerged after World War II and blossomed in the Cold War. Indeed, some say New Zealand has confirmed itself as the weak link in the intelligence chain that it joined with the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.
Do continued EU data flows to the United Kingdom offer hope for the United States?
European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova looks on at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium March 10, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool
As the Biden administration and the European Commission “intensify” negotiations to re-establish a stable transatlantic data-transfer framework, Brussels separately is moving ahead to enable unrestricted data flows with two other major trading partners: the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea.
In announcing the Commission’s preliminary “adequacy” decision for the United Kingdom on February 19, Commission Vice President Věra Jourová said that while it “has left the EU,” the United Kingdom remains a member of “the European privacy family.” The Commission’s announcement offers Washington a ray of hope. If the European Union (EU) welcomes back to the fold an ex-member with wide-ranging surveillance programs, then t