Five Eyes
Intelligence alliance
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| December 2024 | End of the period where seventeen U.S. citizens were charged in federal court, with no cases having proceeded past initial pretrial stages. |
| 2023 | Five Eyes intelligence alliance members held a meeting to discuss cooperation and intelligence sharing strategies, highlighting the ongoing collaborative efforts of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States in intelligence and security matters. |
| 2023 | Five Eyes intelligence leaders held their first known public meeting at Stanford University's Hoover Institution in California, including heads of intelligence agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and US. They discussed topics such as the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Chinese state-backed hackers. |
| 2023 | Following the New Zealand general election, the new government under Prime Minister Christopher Luxon shifted foreign policy towards closer cooperation with Five Eyes partners and away from China. |
| December 2021 | The United States Secretary of State and Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK issued a joint statement criticizing Hong Kong's national security law and its impact on opposition candidates. |
| April 2021 | China's Ministry of State Security announced monitoring measures for employees traveling to Five Eyes countries, including mandatory reporting of travel details and pre-departure 'spying education'. |
| April 2021 | New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta stated that New Zealand would not let the Five Eyes alliance dictate its bilateral relationship with China. |
| January 2021 | Start of a period where seventeen U.S. citizens were charged in U.S. federal court, related to intelligence operations involving foreign government information gathering. |
| November 2020 | The Five Eyes alliance publicly criticized China's rules disqualifying elected legislators in Hong Kong. |
| 2019 | Australian parliamentarians and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began efforts to persuade the United Kingdom not to use Huawei technology in its 5G network. |
| December 1 2018 | Canadian authorities arrested Meng Wanzhou, a Huawei executive, at Vancouver International Airport, marking the beginning of a direct clash between China and the Five Eyes alliance. |
| 2014 | New Zealand's Parliament initiated inquiries about potential monetary contributions from Five Eyes alliance members to intelligence agencies, which were not directly answered. |
| March 2014 | The International Court of Justice ordered Australia to stop spying on East Timor, marking the first restrictions imposed on a Five Eyes member. |
| January 2014 | European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties confirmed that New Zealand and Canadian intelligence agencies cooperated with NSA under the Five Eyes programme, potentially sharing EU citizens' personal data. |
| 2013 | New York magazine reported that Germany showed interest in joining the Five Eyes alliance, with some United States Congress members like Tim Ryan and Charles Dent advocating for Germany's entry. |
| 2013 | US Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair publicly stated that Five Eyes members 'do not spy on each other'. |
| 2013 | British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee investigated GCHQ's data gathering and concluded no domestic British laws were broken. |
| 2013 | Edward Snowden leaked documents revealing numerous joint surveillance programs operated by Five Eyes agencies, including PRISM, XKeyscore, Tempora, MUSCULAR, and STATEROOM. |
| November 2013 | Canadian federal judge Richard Mosley issued a 51-page court ruling criticizing CSIS for illegally outsourcing surveillance of Canadians to overseas partner agencies. |
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