{"id":249,"date":"2023-04-11T05:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T05:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dataprot.net\/?p=249"},"modified":"2023-07-14T07:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T07:21:05","slug":"14-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dataprot.net\/guides\/14-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Eyes – A Serious Threat to Your Online Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Spy movies are full of super cool characters who make most of us wish we were a field agent in the murky world of espionage. We all want to be just like the protagonists in Hollywood scripts who are only spying on the \u201cbad guys\u201d and not some average Joe surfing the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But real life is a little different. Anyone can be spied on, even you. And guess what, it\u2019s entirely legal if you\u2019re located in one of the 14 Eyes countries. Most people dismiss the idea of being placed under surveillance as a complete waste of someone\u2019s time and resources. However, mass surveillance tools aren\u2019t built around that sort of logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, things aren\u2019t all doom and gloom, and there is no reason why you should burn all your electronic devices and move to some remote island. In the following article, we\u2019ll outline a few simple steps you can take to preserve your privacy online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fourteen Eyes is an intelligence-sharing alliance that was born out of an agreement between the US and the UK. It groups a total of fourteen countries that share intelligence information. The alliance has a number of controversial characteristics. One of its most questionable practices involves spying on citizens through proxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For instance, US intelligence agencies may not have legal cover to spy on Americans, but their British counterparts do. In other words, your own government isn\u2019t spying on you, but it still has access to your entire browsing history thanks to its partners in the alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Edward Snowden revelations concerning mass surveillance affirm that modern Western intelligence-sharing arrangements are primarily focused on the digital world. But these alliances date back to the early days of the Cold War when the Soviet Union and its satellites were the primary targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initially, the 14 Eyes only had Five Eyes – an intelligence alliance that was formed in 1946 by the US and the UK before expanding to include Canada (1948), Australia (1956), and New Zealand (1956). From there, it grew to Nine Eyes, incorporating several European states such as France and Denmark before finally adding another five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Snowden\u2019s leaks of highly classified documents from the US National Security Agency were a gift for every conspiracy theorist out there. Finally, they had proof that they were right all along – the government spies on everybody. But the NSA isn\u2019t the only one conducting mass surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n