{"id":360472,"date":"2018-05-10T01:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canadas-trudeau-promotes-anglosphere-spying\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T01:01:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:01:42","slug":"canadas-trudeau-promotes-anglosphere-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canadas-trudeau-promotes-anglosphere-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Trudeau Promotes ‘Anglosphere’ Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the media has been full of news about information-gathering by Facebook and other Internet giants, other secretive organizations that are a major threat to our personal privacy and public security are seldom mentioned. When they are, it has been because politicians are praising them and offering up more money for them to spy.<\/p>\n

For example, Justin Trudeau recently promoted the “Anglosphere<\/a>\u2019s” intelligence sharing arrangement. Two weeks ago, in a rare move, the PM revealed a mee<\/a>ting with his “Five Eyes” counterparts. After the meeting in London Trudeau labeled the 2,000 employee<\/a> Communications Security Establishment, Canada\u2019s main contributor to the “Five Eyes” arrangement, “an extraordinary<\/a> institution”. Last year Trudeau said that “collaboration<\/a> and cooperation between allies, friends and partners has saved lives and keeps all of our citizens safe.”<\/p>\n

The praise comes as the government is seeking to substantially expand<\/a> CSE\u2019s powers and two months ago put up $500 million<\/a> to create a federal “cybersecurity” center. This money is on top of CSE\u2019s $600 million<\/a> annual budget and a massive new $1.2 billion<\/a> complex.<\/p>\n

Since its creation CSE has been part of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing framework. The main contributors to the accord are the US National Security Agency (NSA), Australian Defense Signals Directorate (DFS), New Zealand\u2019s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and CSE. A series of post-World War II accords, beginning with the 1946 UKUSA intelligence agreement, created<\/a> the “AUS\/CAN\/NZ\/UK\/US EYES ONLY” arrangement.<\/p>\n

Writing prior to the Internet, author of Target Nation: Canada and the Western Intelligence Network<\/i> James Littleton notes, “almost the entire globe is monitored by the SIGINT [signals intelligence] agencies of the UKUSA countries.” With major technological advancements in recent decades, the Five Eyes now monitor billions of private communications worldwide.<\/p>\n

The Five Eyes accords are ultra-secretive and operate with little oversight. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden labeled it a “supra-national<\/a> intelligence organization that doesn\u2019t answer to the known laws of its own countries.” In addition to sharing information they\u2019ve intercepted, collected, analyzed and decrypted, the five SIGINT agencies exchange technologies and tactics. They also cooperate on targeting and “standardize<\/a> their terminology, codewords, intercept\u2013handling procedures, and indoctrination oaths, for efficiency as well as security.” <\/p>\n

CSE Special Liaison Officers are embedded with Five Eyes counterparts while colleagues from the US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand are inserted in CSE. NSA has had many long-term guest detachments at CSE facilities. An NSA document Snowden released described how the US and Canadian agencies\u2019 “cooperative efforts<\/a> include the exchange of liaison officers and integrees.”<\/p>\n

NSA has trained<\/a> CSE cryptanalysts and in the 1960s the US agency <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While the media has been full of news about information-gathering by Facebook and other Internet giants, other secretive organizations that are a major threat to our personal privacy and public security are seldom mentioned. When they are, it has been because politicians are praising them and offering up more money for them to spy. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}