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11/8/14

Brazil to avoid NSA spying with under ocean cable to Europe - by Jerome R. Cors

In an attempt to avoid NSA spying, Brazil is planning to lay 3,500 miles of fiber-optic cable under the Atlantic Ocean to bypass the U.S. and create a direct Internet connection to Europe.
The estimated $185 million project, built without the help of U.S. companies, will stretch cable from Fortaleza, Brazil, to Portugal, Bloomberg News reported.

One year ago, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff delivered a scathing speech to the United Nations General Assembly accusing the NSA of violating international law.

“Personal data of citizens was intercepted indiscriminately. Corporate information – often of high economic and even strategic value – was at the center of espionage activity,” Rousseff told the world body. “Also, Brazilian diplomatic missions, among them the permanent mission to the U.N. and the office of the president of the republic itself, had their communications intercepted.”

In the cable project, Telecomunicacoes Brasilerias SA, known as Telebras, plans to shut out even Cisco Systems Inc., a U.S. supplier to Telebras known for its Internet prowess.
 

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