The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is a secretive coalition and surveillance arrangement of countries internationally which include the United States National Security Agency (NSA), Canada’s Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). A series of bilateral agreements were developed in the beginning of 1946 by an alliance of five English-speaking countries over a period of time and became to known as the UKUSA agreement. This agreement established the Five Eyes alliance to share intelligence especially signals intelligence (SIGINT). These five English-speaking countries for almost 70 years have been involved in the global surveillance spying on the communications all over the world and build an infrastructure to master the internet for surveillance.