A fellow classmate, Wendell Epps, presented on The Five Eyes. Personally, I have never heard this before, ever, so I didn't know what to expect or really what it was going to be about. Through his presentation I truly learned a lot, granted I didn't have much background. The Five Eyes is a governmental alliance between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, The United States, and The United Kingdom, as one large alliance they share all intelligence information... at first that seems cool, you know large governments working together and helping each other and bettering the nations. Well, upon further explanation, it's creepy. At first it was used during World War II when information was critical as was the importance of gathering intel during such a war, a positive, right? Except, the monitoring didn't stop. Obviously the government invades privacy, we don't always know how or when (if it ever even stops) but we know that it happens. In the beginning the alliance of information was focused on foreign countries to mitigate the possible bad things that could occur, now it's just a spy resource of sorts. With this alliance the US for example can now use the access that Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and/or the United Kingdom has on its own people for its own use... whatever that might entail. Overall, it's creepy knowing that now it isn't only the US that can see my information, or friends, or family, or even complete strangers.
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