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Pro-Brexiteers have often cited stronger bilateral ties, such as those with the US, as an advantage of Brexit. And of course, post-Brexit, Britain will be ever
by rconti 7y ago
Pro-Brexiteers have often cited stronger bilateral ties, such as those with the US, as an advantage of Brexit. And of course, post-Brexit, Britain will be ever more reliant on the willingness of countries such as the US to cut deals with them. As an independent negotiator in these new deals, Britain will have less power to push back over silly things like data privacy; and as a member of Five Eyes anyway, they're all too happy to have the US do their spying on their behalf, just like the US likes Britain spying on US citizens to the US Government's benefit.
- dilutedh2o 7y agoThat sounds really interesting. Would you mind sharing a resource to learn more about how the UK spies on US citizens?
- truckerbill 7y agoThe snowden leaks touch on it
- andrewjrhill 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
- kelnage 7y agoAlthough if you look at the actual text on the UKUSA agreement document HW 80/2 [1], rather than the short synopsis from Wikipedia, it says very clearly that the UKUSA agreement covers only sharing of "foreign communications" where footnote 3 on page explicitly excludes communications of both the UK and the USA. 1. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11536912 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1153691...
- YinglingLight 7y agoGCHQ leader Robert Hannigan stepped down in Jan 2017. That name will be in future headlines.
- kick 7y agoOptic Nerve was one of these things. Basically, GCHQ or NSA hacked Yahoo!, GCHQ used that to collect stills for every single webcam feed on the platform (this! was! back! when! Yahoo! was! still! relevant!), including a lot of intimate photos, so on. Lots of fun stuff there! But that's a modern example. There are some pretty interesting ones. Here's a fun list of some celebrities that were the targets of a Five Eyes country and were spied on by multiple agencies as a result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_under_Five_Eyes_surveillance#List_of_notable_people_under_FVEY_surveillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_under_Five_Eyes...
- Zenst 7y agoThe recent Huawei 5G drama does seem to go against the grain of this. After all, if the UK had less power to push back, then clearly nobody has told them.
- realradicalwash 7y agonot sure this is all due to self-agency. China has also threatened them over Huawei. the UK is really between a rock and a hard place