dngray
December 4, 2022, 8:06am
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We did away with the “eyes” nonsense some time ago, because it’s only one treaty of many. Many countries also do invasive surveillance nowadays. It’s also not 2012 anymore.
opened 01:41AM - 28 Oct 19 UTC
closed 08:00AM - 24 May 22 UTC
high priority
📝 correction
## Description
These days I really don't think this specific services should … be recommended or not recommended based upon the FVEY [(Five Eyes)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes).
The reason for this is, that even if you were to choose a country that was not in the FVEY there is nothing stopping FVEY states from "leaning" on said country that you have chosen for your services.
Additionally we can be sure FVEY is not the only intelligence gathering agreement in the world. I would think countries that align themselves with China or Russia might very well share information too.
A user needs to establish whether their usage is going to align with their state's policy. For example if I lived in `insert EU state with good privacy legislation` might be a better choice than something overseas.
This argument comes up quite often in regard to DoH, VPN providers.
- https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/1428
- https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/1395#issuecomment-540905268
- https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/1431
- https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/1915
We should encourage the use of [End to End encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption) wherever possible, and if anonymity is required, the usage of Tor or other strong anonymity networks.
privacyguides:main ← privacyguides:14-eyes
opened 08:44AM - 26 Dec 21 UTC
This page does more harm than good anyways.
Related discussion: https://github.… com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/468
Closes: #448
We’re waiting for their write-up Add Windscribe by dngray · Pull Request #1312 · privacyguides/privacyguides.org · GitHub
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