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5-eyes: United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand

These five countries make up the core of the UK-USA Agreement. That is to say, they are the main entities spying on everyone, including their partners listed below.

9 eyes: Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway

These are third-parties with whom the NSA cooperates, but also spies upon. Denmark for example has allowed the NSA to install surveillance equipment on international fiber-optic cables for data leaving and entering the country under the Rampart-A program. In the return, the NSA assists the Danish intelligence services in various ways including access to NSA hardware, and allowing them access to the surveillance equipment installed on the fiber-optic cables. Germany, too, is part of this program.

14 eyes: Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Sweden

Belgium has actually been targeted by the U.S and U.K of the 5-Eyes. Articles here and here. Sweden has access to XKEYSCORE, a very powerful tool of the NSA.

TL;DR - The 5 are the main spies, the rest are enablers that also spy on each other, with help they receive from taking part of in this intelligence sharing program. Your internet traffic will most likely transit through one of these countries anyway, but if you avoid make sure your traffic doesn't originate from one of these countries, you're better off as far as privacy goes.

This post pulls together everything I’ve had to say on the subject of how ride-sourcing companies like Uber could impact cities.  I hope to leave this topic for a while! Henry Grabar at Slate has a good piece on an issue that I have been raising the alarm about for a while.  The rise of ride-hailing companies is …

The reason we recommend switching to neomailbox.ch addresses is that the ".net" domain space is controlled by Verisign, which is a US company, whereas the ".ch" domain space is administered by SWITCH Information Technology Services, a Swiss company, and is subject to Swiss laws, not US ones. Therefore, switching to neomailbox.ch addresses is an important component of keeping your email service outside of the USA.

After a lot of reading I don't think there is any email service anywhere that is actually secure. The metadata on email is too extensive and the reach of the NSA (et al) is too broad. If you have to secure the contents of your email you're going to have to encrypt it yourself. If you just want to get away from advertisers deusexcaelo has complied a nice list of email services. but don't think any of them are "private". They're not. Email is inherently insecure.

Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs.

"Surveillance is the business model of the Internet," Schneier told attendees. "We build systems that spy on people in exchange for services. Corporations call it marketing."

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"The NSA woke up and said, corporations are spying on the Internet, let's get ourselves a copy,'" Schneier said. Most NSA surveillance "piggybacks" what the companies are already doing, he said.

The government didn't tell anyone they have to carry around a tracking device, but people now carry mobile devices. The government doesn't require users to notify any agency about their relationships. Users will tell Facebook soon enough, Schneier noted. "Fundamentally, we have reached the golden age of surveillance because we are all being surveilled ubiquitously."

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