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Information about the Five Eyes Alliance was among the classified documents leaked to the public in 2013, by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
This stirred global controversy, as questions were raised about the line between surveillance and the invasion of online privacy.
Though some previous knowledge about FVEY existed, the public was unaware of the full extent of data collection and the new revelations left much of the public feeling violated about their privacy rights. The involved government agencies have maintained the necessity of their surveillance for national security purposes.
In 2016, the Investigatory Powers Act was drafted in the U.K., which expanded the U.K. Intelligence Community's legal limitations of electronic surveillance. The draft was received with backlash in the U.K. for privacy concerns with mass petitions to repeal the act and was amended in 2018 after the U.K. high court ruled the draft an act in violation of EU law.
Five Eyes and human privacy rights
Since the Snowden leak, the Five Eyes Alliance has faced large amounts of public distrust, with many people believing it to be a violation of basic human rights. Prior to the leak, it was thought that the Five Eyes Alliance intelligence activities were limited to foreign countries. However, the classified NSA documents leaked by Snowden showed that the Five Eyes were collecting and storing large amounts of electronic communications records from their own ordinary citizens. The documents revealed that the partner countries were monitoring the citizens of each other– as a loophole, to bypass domestic spying laws for mass surveillance. This Five Eyes surveillance program was known as Echelon.
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