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Five Eyes Alliances Reassessed in Privacy Service Advice

Original: Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, Fourteen Eyes: What They Mean and How Much Weight to Give Them When Choosing a Service The recomme

The common privacy advice to pick an email provider or VPN based outside the Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, or Fourteen Eyes surveillance alliances is being questioned in a new discussion among security practitioners. The argument, familiar in guides and comparison charts, is that these jurisdiction labels are often given too much weight when choosing a service, without clear explanation of what the alliances actually mean in practice.

Why now: Ongoing debate in privacy and infosec circles about whether surveillance-alliance jurisdiction should dominate VPN and email provider choices

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• Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, Fourteen Eyes: What They Mean and How Much Weight to Give Them When Choosing a Service The recommendation to „choose an email service or VPN outside the Five, Nine, or Fourteen Eyes“ is repeated in guides, comparison charts, and in… https://… · vsx@infosec.exchange · 2

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