Five Eyes
SUMMARY
Allies spying on each other's citizens to skip their own laws. A gentleman's agreement.
FULL DOSSIER
The UKUSA agreement (1946, declassified 2010) binds US-UK-Canada-Australia-NZ signals intelligence. The documented loophole — partners tasking collection on each other's citizens to bypass domestic law — was flagged in the ECHELON report and confirmed in Snowden-era documents. It is the legal architecture beneath ECHELON and PRISM, which is why it hubs the surveillance cluster.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01UKUSA agreement (declassified 2010)
02ECHELON report (2001)
03Snowden documents
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