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AUSTRALIA: Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens

04 December 2013

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"• Secret 5-Eyes document shows surveillance partners discussing what information they can pool about their citizens
• DSD indicated it could provide material without some privacy restraints imposed by other countries such as Canada
• Medical, legal or religious information 'not automatically limited'
• Concern that intelligence agency could be 'operating outside its legal mandate'"

See the article: Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens (Guardian, link)

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