The United States wants five years of your social media, every email address you’ve used in ten years, and your family’s names, birth dates and addresses before you can visit on a holiday. In Australia, police and government agencies accessed metadata without a warrant nearly 365,000 times in the latest year, and a parliamentary committee found more than 80 other bodies, the RSPCA among them, getting in through a loophole. Behind both sits an intelligence alliance between the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, created in 1946 and kept classified for 64 years, that no pollster in any of the five countries appears to have ever asked people whether they know it exists. This is Part 1 of 5.