What Is Five Eyes (And Why It Should Change Where You Store Your Data)
You’ve probably seen “outside Five Eyes jurisdiction” used as a selling point by privacy tools. Most people skip past it. They shouldn’t. It’s one of the most important phrases in the privacy space and almost nobody explains what it actually means. Here’s the full picture. The Short Version Five Eyes is an intelligence-sharing alliance between five English-speaking governments: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. They share signals intelligence — intercepted communications, surveillance data, metadata — with each other freely and routinely. ...