How the Five Eyes countries share immigration data 29 January 2021 The 'Five Eyes' countries - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA - are perhaps best known for their role in global spying and surveillance for the purposes of "national security". However, this is not the only way in which they cooperate. A report for Radio New Zealand looks at how and why they share immigration data. The report, by Gill Bonnett, notes that New Zealand recently set up something called the 'Secure Real Time Platform' (STRP), which allows the exchange of biometric and biographic data with other members of the Five Eyes network - in this context, referred to as the 'Migration Five' or M5.