Five Eyes

 Today's presentation that really sparked my thinking was the one on the Five Eyes that Maddie gave.  So the Five Eyes is an agreement between five countries Australia, Canada,  New Zealand, United Kingdom, and America. In this agreement, these five countries agreed to share almost all their data with each other to keep their "eyes" on countries and people at risk. Usually, surveillance on this level would really not be a problem plenty of countries keep eye on people of risks for the safety of everyday people and their country. The problem with the Five Eyes is how secretive and intrusive they were. Maddie mentioned a program they used called ECHELON, and this allowed them to hack and infiltrate Soviet satellite signals, which in turn allowed them to infiltrate call, fax, and email signals all around the world. In essence, no one's information is secret. I did some of my own research to see more about what else the Five Eyes did. A major one I found is that the Five Eyes tapped Princess Diana's phone for years; more specifically, the USA did this. Currently, the US is said to have more than 1000 pages on the conversations Princess Diana had. What scares me most about this is if a substantial political figure like Princess Diana can get her phone tapped by a government that is not hers, what is stopping someone from one of the other five eyes countries from tapping one of our phones, just regular citizens.  This use of technology should not be in the hands of anyone; it directly violates the civil liberties we have in America and the basic human rights we hold. The people of the Five Eyes organization have no shame or dignity just spying on people for their own personal ends.