[chebucto]

I may have missed it, but I'm still waiting to hear whether the assumption about the 'five eyes' is true: whether the signals intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia & NZ spy on each others' citizens, and share that data with one another, in order to circumvent domestic spying restrictions. That is, whether the NSA spies on Canadians and gives that information to the Canadian government, while at the same time the CSE spies on Americans and gives that information to the American government.

[ferdo]

Project Echelon seems to fit the bill:

http://www.nsawatch.org/echelonfaq.html

[rett12]

And do they share Canadian data with Israel without Canada knowing it?

[munin]

If you read the laws, you will discover that intelligence agencies are forbidden from asking anyone to do things that the agency itself may not do. The people who wrote these laws did their best to think of these loopholes.

If you argue that they would break the law, then there is no reason for a sharing agreement as the agency could just break the law and do things themselves. So, this myth can probably be buried whatever you think about the integrity of the agencies...

[rbanffy]

> are forbidden from asking anyone to do things that the agency itself may not do.

I believe there are many ways to do it without asking.