I'm not agreeing with it. I vehemently disagree with current US intelligence policy, and I think 5EYES is a travesty and clearly intended to do an end-run around legal protections for citizens of each of the signatories from their own government. It's clear the US government is acting unethically, but that does not mean their behavior is illegal, and I'm trying to clearly point out the distinction.
There's a lot of Europeans in the comments who mistakenly believe that GDPR applies outside of the EU. It does not. The US is a sovereign nation with its own laws, and it does not have any analogous legal restrictions like GDPR, nor does it have any legal restrictions against the government using it's intelligence apparatus against non-Americans.
There's a lot of Europeans in the comments who mistakenly believe that GDPR applies outside of the EU. It does not. The US is a sovereign nation with its own laws, and it does not have any analogous legal restrictions like GDPR, nor does it have any legal restrictions against the government using it's intelligence apparatus against non-Americans.