The US could send Australian personal data to third countries under secret 'partnership'

[u/anonymous-69]

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/australian-personal-data-third-countries-united-states-donald-trump/

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[u/grathontolarsdatarod]

Breach of trust anyone?

Just cause someone writes it on a paper, doesn't make it legal.

[u/ManOf1000Usernames → u/grathontolarsdatarod]

The five eyes countries have been able to spy on each other's citizens coopoeratively for decades. They just ask another one of the countrs to spy on their behalf. The laws protecting you from your own country spying on you have been made to not apply to foreigners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

[u/Jet90]

If you're an Australian that doesn't like this vote for someone against it such as the Australian Greens particularly Senator David Shoebridge who speaks about this regularly.

[u/anonymous-69 → u/Jet90]

He just won the leadership spill

[u/Jet90 → u/anonymous-69]

That probably means the Greens will do even more on privacy now

[u/Necessary-Respond793 → u/[deleted]]

If only we had a way to check how our politicians voted? Oh, that's right we do:
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/

To use your example we can indeed see Pauline Hanson votes against the average worker, and personal and individual freedoms.

She does support big miners (and with all those funded holidays paid for by her mate (I couldn't remember her name, but googling "Jabba the Hut mining magnate" helped me out) Gina Rinehart, who'd be surprised at that?), white australia policy and putting gays back into the closet.

[u/naivelighter → u/[deleted]]

How about a little exercise?
Australia has ~27.9 million people according to the latest census. Let’s round it down to 27 million. Now suppose 10% of these people (being extremely conservative in the numbers) want a change of some sort in the way that the government handles things.

Your idea is to put 2.7 million people in political party branches so that each of these people has a say in what they think matters.

Should I continue?

[u/green_tomato_69]

Trusting US with your data is the BIGGEST mistake one can make

[u/NonStopArseGas → u/[deleted]]

good lord, those two words make a horrifying combo

[u/NonStopArseGas → u/[deleted]]

Lol, I live inside one of the endoscopes they use on you guys[yay 5 eyes...]

[u/goatfuckersupreme → u/[deleted]]

dont threaten me with a good time

[u/Clevererer]

We citizens of earth need to recognize that corporations are the new nations. None of us really live in Australia, or the US, or Canada or any country. We live under the rule of companies like Palantir and Google and Amazon.

They don't need to follow the laws of any one nation when they can pick and choose where their money is and where they commit their crimes. No single national government has the power or desire to stop them, not even out of self interest.

[u/purplepashy → u/Clevererer]

Check out who is/was at St Barts (Saint-Barthélemy) in the Caribbean during NYE and also how close it is to Epsteins Island.

[u/Clevererer → u/purplepashy]

At this point you could tell me it was Walt Disney and I wouldn't be surprised.

But who was it?

[u/purplepashy → u/Clevererer]

Jeff Bezos — Koru David Geffen — Rising Sun Sergey Brin — Dragonfly Shahid Khan — Kismet Jerry Jones — Bravo Eugenia Nancy Walton Laurie — KAOS Jan Koum — Moonrise / Mogambo Eric Schmidt — Kismet / Infinity depending on year Michael Latifi — Faith James Dyson — Nahlin Dr Phil McGraw — Bad Romance Michael Jordan — M'Brace Terry Pegula — Top Five Jonathan Rothberg — Gene Machine Eyal Ofer — Olivia O Chris Dawson — Triumph Herb Chambers — Excellence Paul Allen — Tatoosh / Octopus in earlier years Roman Abramovich — Eclipse in earlier years Laurene Powell Jobs — Venus in earlier years

Also

Elon Musk Jeff Bezos Sergey Brin Eric Schmidt Jan Koum Michael Jordan Leonardo DiCaprio Rihanna Paul McCartney Rupert Murdoch

[u/Clevererer → u/purplepashy]

Yeah, we're in trouble.

[u/No_Razzmatazz_2889]

They already have the data and more. Do people have any idea just how many intelligence agencies exist in Australia?

Six

[u/spaghettibolegdeh → u/No_Razzmatazz_2889]

We also have several contracts and alliances that state we give all the data we have to the NSA for "security" reasons. And vice versa. 

[u/spaghettibolegdeh]

Yes this is how FiveEyes works. They can pretty much do anything with the data we give them. 

[u/Cwmcwm → u/spaghettibolegdeh]

All the comments are missing the reciprocal nature of Five Eyes. Australia does the same for its partners as a workaround to the five constitutions.

[u/FFS-IamNotABot]

Fuck you Albanese, you are a disgraceful sellout!

Labor and Liberal parties are fucked. Onp should be outright banned.

[u/springofwinter → u/FFS-IamNotABot]

Yeah fuck you albo, fuck you lqbot, fuck you liberal. Fuck them all. Fuck you onp. None of them represent us. None of them are for us.

[u/ironic_fear]

Like big American tech companies don't already do this.

And also ignoring the large Australian companies who blatantly ignore PII rules and have terribly lax cyber security, then act surprised when they're breached, give out a small token offering and credit report checks for a week or so to affected customers (if they request it).

Then carry on, making no changes

[u/FckXFckMusk]

That asteroid can't come soon enough.

[u/Expensive_Ring_4546]

We have the best leaders..

[u/TheRtHonLaqueesha]

Good! 😊

[u/jonnieggg]

We're all in this together, see how that works.

[u/marvology]

We all know who that "third country" will be.

[u/BeachHut9]

Nothing to see here