[governance] FW: Brazil opens investigation into US spying

Thu Jul 11 05:48:53 EDT 2013

Compared to India, I'd say it was a brave move anyday

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Diego Rafael Canabarro <
diegocanabarro at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be really honest, Brazil was very coward by challenging the US only on
> the grounds of "sovereignty" and of possibly turning to the ITU to handle
> the matter. Ronaldo Lemos (FGV) wrote an important piece on Folha de São
> Paulo today (in Portuguese) in which he criticizes the lack of
> consideration for other stakeholders and INet governance-related fora.
>
>
> http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2013/07/1308731-analise-reacao-brasileira-a-espionagem-e-antiquada.shtml
>
> Regards
> Diego
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <
> chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Kudos Brazil in being brave enough to take this big step. We'll be
>> following with interest as the outcome has potentially huge impacts.
>>
>> -C
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:08 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> *From:* sid-l at googlegroups.com [mailto:sid-l at googlegroups.com] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Sid Shniad
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 09, 2013 11:31 PM
>>> *To:* undisclosed-recipients:
>>> *Subject:* Brazil opens investigation into US spying****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> *
>>> http://www.kcautv.com/story/22786118/brazil-opens-investigation-into-us-spying
>>>
>>> Associated Press   July 8, 2013 *****
>>> Brazil opens investigation into US spying ****
>>>
>>> *By BRADLEY BROOKS
>>> Associated Press *****
>>>
>>> SAO PAULO (AP) - The Brazilian government began an investigation Monday
>>> into whether telecommunications firms operating in the country cooperated
>>> with the U.S. as part of a spying program that has collected data on
>>> billions of telephone and email conversations.****
>>>
>>> Anatel, the government agency that regulates the telecom sector in
>>> Brazil, said it's working with federal police and other government agencies
>>> on the investigation.****
>>>
>>> The O Globo newspaper reported this weekend that information released by
>>> the National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden showed Brazil is the top
>>> target in Latin America for the NSA's massive intelligence-gathering effort
>>> aimed at monitoring communications around the world.****
>>>
>>> Brazil isn't alone in its concern; London-based advocacy group Privacy
>>> International filed lawsuit on Monday over alleged spying of internet and
>>> phone users in Britain. Earlier, official in Germany, France, Hong Kong and
>>> other nations lodged complaints.****
>>>
>>> Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff the nation would raise the issue at
>>> the 193-country U.N. International Telecommunications Union and also at the
>>> U.N. Commission on Human Rights since the "fundamentals" of human rights
>>> include "freedom of expression and the right to privacy."****
>>>
>>> "If there was any involvement of other countries, of other businesses
>>> that aren't Brazilian, then it's certainly a violation of our sovereignty,
>>> without a doubt, just like it's a violation of human rights," Rousseff
>>> said. "Now, we have to look at things without pre-judgment, we have to
>>> investigate."****
>>>
>>> Brazilian regulator Anatel said in its statement that "it's worth
>>> clarifying that the confidentiality of data and telephone communications is
>>> a right guaranteed by the constitution, by our laws and by Anatel's
>>> regulations. Its violation is punishable in civil, criminal and
>>> administrative realms."****
>>>
>>> The O Globo article said the NSA collected the data through an undefined
>>> association between U.S. and Brazilian telecommunications companies. It
>>> said it could not verify which Brazilian companies were involved or if they
>>> were aware their links were being used to collect the data.****
>>>
>>> On Monday, O Globo reported that the U.S. had a significant data center
>>> in Brasilia for the collection of intercepted global satellite
>>> communications until at least 2002, based upon the Snowden document it's
>>> seen. The documents didn't indicate if that still exists.****
>>>
>>> Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo told reporters in Brasilia that
>>> he "has no doubt whatsoever" Brazilian citizens and institutions were spied
>>> upon.****
>>>
>>> "Even the European Parliament was monitored - you think that we
>>> weren't?" he said. "We have to verify the circumstances in which this
>>> occurred, the exact way and when."****
>>>
>>> Bernardo met Monday afternoon with U.S. Ambassador Thomas Shannon.****
>>>
>>> "He denied that there is such monitoring here in Brazil, he said that
>>> there never was a data center and that there is no agreement with Brazilian
>>> companies to collect data in Brazilian territory," Bernardo said afterward,
>>> according to the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency.****
>>>
>>> The O Globo article printed Sunday said that "Brazil, with extensive
>>> digitalized public and private networks operated by large
>>> telecommunications and internet companies, appears to stand out on maps of
>>> the U.S. agency as a priority target for telephony and data traffic,
>>> alongside nations such as China, Russia and Pakistan."****
>>>
>>> The report did not describe the sort of data collected, but the U.S.
>>> programs appear to gather what is called metadata: logs of message times,
>>> addresses and other information rather than the content of the messages.
>>> ****
>>>
>>> U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro and
>>> originally broke the Snowden story in the Britain-based Guardian newspaper,
>>> where he writes a regularly blog, co-authored the Sunday report in O Globo.
>>> ****
>>>
>>> In an interview with the Globo TV network, Greenwald said the Snowden
>>> documents show that the U.S. was using Brazil as a "bridge" to gather data
>>> on better-protected states where it cannot gain direct access, but whose
>>> traffic may pass through Brazil.****
>>>
>>> "We don't have access to China's system, but we have access to Brazil's
>>> system," Greenwald said, speaking Portuguese. "So, we collect the traffic
>>> in Brazil not because we want to know what one Brazilian is saying to
>>> another Brazilian, but because we want to know what someone in China is
>>> saying to somebody in Iran, for example."****
>>>
>>> Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota expressed "deep concern"
>>> about the monitoring of Brazil and demanded explanations from U.S.
>>> diplomats. On Monday, he said the conversations with the Americans were
>>> "encouraging" but that "we need to deepen the discussions."****
>>>
>>> Patriota reiterated that Brazil was looking at how to take measures at
>>> the United Nations "that would guarantee not just privacy, but also the
>>> respect and the citizenship of states when it comes to the use of
>>> information technology and cyber security."****
>>>
>>> In Washington, the U.S. State Department declined to comment on the
>>> alleged intelligence activity.****
>>>
>>> "As a matter of policy, we have been clear that the United States does
>>> gather foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations. I can tell
>>> you that we have spoken with Brazilian officials regarding these
>>> allegations," said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. "We plan to
>>> continue our dialogue with the Brazilians through normal diplomatic
>>> channels. But those are conversations that, of course, we would keep
>>> private."****
>>>
>>> ___****
>>>
>>> Associated Press writer Deb Riechmann in Washington contributed to this
>>> report.****
>>>
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