Tag: US National Security Agency

• Tuesday, December 17th 2013 - 02:18 UTC

  US insists Obama remains open to a state visit from Brazil's Dilma Rousseff

  

  The new US ambassador in Brazil Liliana Ayalde said President Barack Obama is prepared to receive his Brazilian peer Dilma Rousseff. The statement comes weeks after a state visit planned for last October was suspended by Dilma in protest over revelations of extensive US spying of Brazilian communications including the mobiles of the Brazilian leader.

• Friday, November 29th 2013 - 23:30 UTC

  Brazil will have its own national-made secure communications satellite by 2016

  

  Brazil's state-owned telecom provider Telebras signed a 560m dollar contract to deliver a satellite for secure communications on Thursday, following months of outrage over revelations of US cyber spying. A statement said a joint venture between Telebras and Embraer would deliver the geostationary satellite for strategic communications by late 2016.

• Friday, November 22nd 2013 - 20:34 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil coordinating cyber-defense in the framework of Unasur

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Agustín Rossi met his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim and agreed to incorporate all South American countries in their bilateral treaty on cyber-defense. The decision was made after several reports indicated the United States engaged in espionage activities against the countries in the region.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2013 - 03:26 UTC

  Brazil marks distance from US spying: 'we did not violate anyone's privacy rights'

  

  Brazil's Minster of Justice Jose Eduardo Cardozo said on Tuesday that the spying performed by his country's intelligence agency did not violate anyone's privacy rights - unlike the spying committed by the United States.

• Sunday, November 3rd 2013 - 03:14 UTC

  Germany/Brazil initiative at the UN to end excessive electronic surveillance

  

  Germany and Brazil circulated a draft resolution to a U.N. General Assembly committee on Friday that calls for an end to excessive electronic surveillance, data collection and other gross invasions of privacy. The draft resolution does not name any specific countries, although U.N. diplomats said it was clearly aimed at the United States, which has been embarrassed by revelations of a massive international surveillance program from a former US contractor.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 21:23 UTC

  Britain sleepwalking into becoming a surveillance state, wars MP Hubert

  

  Britain is sleepwalking into becoming a surveillance state, the like of which has never been seen before in peacetime Britain, MPs have been told. Opening a packed Westminster Hall debate on intelligence and the security services, Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert (Cambridge) said there were serious questions to be asked about the extent and scale of intelligence agencies’ activities.

• Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:29 UTC

  Washington pledges not to spy on UN communications system

  

  The United Nations said that the United States has pledged not to spy on the world body's communications after a report that the National Security Agency had gained access to the UN video conferencing system.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 16:37 UTC

  Spying on your neighbor: Rousseff demands from congress urgent legislation

  

  The US National Security Agency’s cyber spying on foreign heads of state from Angela Merkel to Dilma Rousseff is poised to produce its first high-profile corporate casualty: Google Inc.’s operations in Brazil.

• Friday, October 25th 2013 - 14:29 UTC

  Germany and France demand a “no spying” agreement from Washington

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded that the United States strike a “no-spying” agreement with Berlin and Paris by the end of the year, saying alleged espionage against two of Washington's closest EU allies had to be stopped.

• Friday, October 25th 2013 - 02:30 UTC

  US monitored phone conversations of 35 world leaders according to Snowden

  

  The United States monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders according to classified documents leaked by fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden, Britain's Guardian newspaper said.