Thread by @SMaurizi

1. just want to remind you what *5Eyes* means in these days #5Eyes hit the headlines due to #Trump blaming #China and suggesting #COVID leaked from a #Wuhan lab. The #Snowden files contributed to shed light on #5Eyes

2. #5Eyes is an alliance between US,UK,Canada,Australia,New Zealand to share SIGINT=intelligence collected by the US,UK,Canada,Australia,New Zealand agencies specialised in intercepting signals(communications between people+electronic signals). NSA (US),GCHQ(UK),etc

3. countries like #France or #Germany or #Italy are NOT #5Eyes, but rather #14Eyes, an alliance called "SIGINT Seniors", including: #5Eyes+Sweden,Norway,Denmark,France,Belgium,Netherland, Germany,Italy,Spain

4. thanks to the #Snowden files we learned some of the #5Eyes' abuses such as #Australian surveillance agency offered to share data of #Australian citizens with US,UK,Canada and New Zealand. They considered whether or not to share #HealthData [ARCHIVE]: theguardian.com/world/2013/dec…

5. while working on the #Snowden files, I thought that intelligence agencies are interested in #HealthData because they want to spy on the health of citizens,political leadership,economic and military leadership. I didn't know #HealthData can be used for more than this

6. thanks to this interview with #Snowden conducted by #Vice vice.com/en_us/article/… I understood that #HealthData such as heart rate can be used to spy on emotions in addition to spy on the health of entire populations