Brazilian government tries to deal with NSA spying

July 08, 2013 22:15

As the rest of the world digests the implications of the data surveillance by the National Security Agency, it emerged that Brazil is also on the list of non-adversarial countries being monitored.

The Brazilian newspaper O Globo broke the story, co-written by Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald and published yesterday (7 July), based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The article suggests that systematic tapping of the telecoms network has led to the collection of emails and telephone records of millions of Brazilians over the last decade.There are no specific numbers, but the article says that about 2,3 million phone calls and messages in Brazil were monitored in January alone.

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