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Brazil, Europe Direct Cable to avoid US spying

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:21AM   
from the Take-my-data-and-go-home dept.

c0lo writes: "Reuters reports

(Reuters) Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil's reliance on the United States after Washington spied on Brasilia.

At a summit in Brussels, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said the $185 million cable project was central to "guarantee the neutrality" of the Internet, signaling her desire to shield Brazil's Internet traffic from U.S. surveillance. According to other sources, the construction is scheduled to begin in July.

A joint venture between Brazilian telecoms provider Telebras and Spain's IslaLink Submarine Cables would lay the communications link. Telebras would have a 35 percent stake, IslaLink would have a 45 percent interest and European and Brazilian pension funds could put up the remainder.

So it has come to this"

• Re:Futility (Score: 3, Informative) by gottabeme on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:26PM

  by gottabeme (1531) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:26PM (#6758)

  Read the book Blind Man's Bluff. Even U.S. Presidents didn't know what the Navy was doing, tapping Soviet Navy cables in their own backyard. A U.S. sub literally sailed along a Soviet beach looking through its periscope for a "CAUTION: UNDERSEA CABLE" sign, found one, and proceeded to tap the cable.

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