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But can the other Five Eyes states wait? Offshoring outlawed domestic surveillance to allies seems to be the name of the game now.
by rebuilder 5y ago
But can the other Five Eyes states wait? Offshoring outlawed domestic surveillance to allies seems to be the name of the game now.
- woodruffw 5y agoI'm not confident that anything will stop US military and defense intelligence (which is completely distinct from the FBI, as a domestic LEO) from doing shady things. Instead of worrying about how they're going to get around the law (they can do parallel construction on the Moon, for all I care), I'd prefer to have a sufficiently big punishment waiting for them when the public finally learns about it.
- OtomotO 5y agoTime will punish them. As it did with any imperium in the past, as it will until the last ape on this space rock has ushered their last breadth. Time is lord of all of us. Peasants and emperors alike
- lern_too_spel 5y agoThere is no evidence that this happens, and it is illegal for the US government to ask another country to spy on its citizens. If it happened, the resulting lawsuits would make headlines for weeks, and there would be forced resignations.
- justinclift 5y ago> There is no evidence that this happens ... Didn't the Snowden documents and various things from that point give evidence that it _does_ happen?
- tata71 5y agoGP found HN that year, might have missed the headlines. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_%282013%E2%80%93present%29 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosu...
- lern_too_spel 5y agoPoint me to any document that says the US asks other countries to spy on its citizens.
- lern_too_spel 5y agoNo. Nothing in Snowden's leaks showed this happening. If anything did, there would have been lawsuits. People believe there were a lot of things in those leaks that weren't actually there.