‘Australian Spy Agency Offered to Share Data About Ordinary Citizens’

Ewen MacAskill, James Ball and Katharine Murphy: > Australia’s surveillance agency offered to share information collected about ordinary Australian citizens with its major intelligence partners, according to a secret 2008 document leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. > The document shows the partners discussing whether or not to share “medical, legal or religious information”, and increases concern that the…

Ewen MacAskill, James Ball and Katharine Murphy:

> Australia’s surveillance agency offered to share information collected about ordinary Australian citizens with its major intelligence partners, according to a secret 2008 document leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
> The document shows the partners discussing whether or not to share “medical, legal or religious information”, and increases concern that the agency could be operating outside its legal mandate, according to the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC.

*See*, it’s not *just* the United States acting all shady.

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