Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data

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• JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  jfc

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The “Five Eyes” concept has to be the dumbest, most transparent example of the “I’m not touching you” defense to charges of constitution circumvention.

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  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ??

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    • thenoirwolfess@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Acronym for ‘Jesus fucking Christ’, referencing a book character. In this sense it conveys a sense of shock/disbelief.

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  • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Literally word for word my first thought.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone… The five eyes (and nine eyes) nations all share data in the name of “stopping terrorism”.

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    stopping terrorism

    More like I’ll spy on your people, you spy on mine (which is illegal / unpopular), swapsies.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well hey, at least our rights-obliterating global surveillance apparatus is already named like the bad guys in a stupid action movie!

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why?

  Just that. Why? Who is actually dumb enough to think that that is a good idea?

  Dutch intelligence agencies already stopped sharing certain types of information with the US after trump then used that for his personal quick gain, destroying years of intelligence work.

  This isn’t even intelligence, this is your citizens. This is data on your citizens that the US WILL abuse.

  So, why?

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Money

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Likely because they are a close partner in the intelligence network UKUSA.

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• SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every right they take will be used against us

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I believe Canada is also introducing legislation to increase the amount of data on its citizens that it shares with the USA. In the current climate these moves seem crazy.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Any sources on that?

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Until recently the Canadian government was pushing Bill C-2:

      eff.org/…/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-su…

      They have now toned it down a bit but there are still concerns:

      archive.is/rYDxj

      (theglobeandmail.com/…/article-ottawa-set-to-reduc…)

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Crikey

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • pfr@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because we’ll always be too scared to say no to the US. We’re their bitch at this point. We’re a little less loud then they are, but we’re just as fucked up where it counts.

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    • RickyRigatoni@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Inshallah we see the fall of the entire anglosphere in our lifetimes.

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  • nosuchanon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Palantir is hungry for more data.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Palate is hungry for deez nuts. 

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    • nforminvasion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      *skynet

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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not lots of detail, probably just photos and fingerprints for Australians arriving in the US.

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