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Showing Original Post only (View all)Greenwald makes another Snowden dump. This time Brazil papers. US spied on millions of e-mails calls [View all]
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This just out in the Brazilian papers. Translation mine.U.S. spying on millions of e-mails and calls of Brazilians
RIO - In the last decade, people residing or in transiting in Brazil, as well as companies operating in the country, have become targets of espionage by the National Security Agency of the United States (NSA). There are no precise figures, but last January Brazil was just behind the United States, which had 2.3 billion phone calls and messages spied upon.
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The NSA documents are eloquent. Brazil, with its extensive public and private networks operated by large telecommunications companies and internet, is highlighted on maps of the U.S. agency with focus primarily on voice traffic and data (origin and destination), was monitored along with nations such as China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan. It is uncertain how many people and companies were monitored in Brazil. But there is evidence that the volume of data captured by the filtering system in the local telephone networks and the Internet is constant and on large scale.
... (Explains Prism, the NSA, NSA budget, employees, how this has "rocked the credibility of the Barack Obama government" which continued the Bush surveillance programs and increased the NSA's budget)....
However, this program (Prism) does not allow the NSA access to the entire universe of communications. Large volumes of traffic calls and internet data occur outside the scope of the NSA and its partners for the use of Prism. To extend their reach, and build the global espionage system they want, the agency has developed other programs with corporate partners who provide them with access to international communications.
One is Fairview, which enabled the collection of data in communications networks worldwide. It is used by the NSA, according to the description in the document to which OGLOBO had access, in partnership with a major U.S. phone company. The US company, in turn, maintains business relationships with other telecommunications services in Brazil and worldwide. As a result of its relations with non-US companies, the U.S. operator has access to the local communications networks, including Brazilian.
Ie, through this corporate alliance, the NSA has access to communication systems outside of US borders. The paper describes the system as follows: "The partners operate in the U.S., and do not have access to information passing in networks of the other nation, but through corporate relationships, are provided exclusive access to the other (telecommunications companies and internet service providers)." Telecommunications companies in Brazil have this partnership that gives access to the American company. What is not clear is if the American company has been used by the NSA as a sort of "bridge". It is also unclear whether the Brazilian companies are aware of how their partnership with the U.S. company is being used.
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http://oglobo.globo.com/mundo/eua-espionaram-milhoes-de-mails-ligacoes-de-brasileiros-8940934
Also in the article
- "this access allows them to collect detailed records of telephone calls and emails of millions of (Brazilian) people, businesses and institutions."
- explains the FISA court warrant/national security letter sham and the Verizon case
- explains how US citizens have a figleaf of protection but "monitoring people, companies and foreign institutions is NSA's mission, as defined in Presidential Order (number 12333) for three decades"
- a person or company "of interest" residing in Brazil can have all their calls and electronic mail - sent or received - under constant surveillance.
- The agency holds all sorts of records (dialed number, trunk and extension used, duration, date, time, location, address of sender and recipient, as well as IP addresses - as well as websites visited). And does the same with whoever is on the other end of the line, or another computer screen.
- monitoring the progressive relationship network of each telephone caller or recipient of electronic mail (e-mail, fax, SMS, videos, podcasts, etc..)
- All kinds of information stored
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Greenwald makes another Snowden dump. This time Brazil papers. US spied on millions of e-mails calls [View all]
Catherina
Jul 2013
OP
Explains "Obama's involvement"? Where does that knowledge-based conclusion come from?
randome
Jul 2013
#1
Well...I was responding to your explicit assertion that the information did not belong to NSA.
MADem
Jul 2013
#149
Don't ask, I have read the thread and have no idea what s/he is talking about either, but
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#156
And I will continue to to maintain they are in violation of the 4th, among other Amendments
RC
Jul 2013
#50
They are a rogue agency because they are operating outside the Constitution.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#67
The courts have not yet decided a case involving this massive collection of metadata.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#78
Correct, Nadin... This can't possibly be about terrorism. My pick is, as you've said, "resistance to
truth2power
Jul 2013
#166
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it seems pretty obvious to me that you're right.... nt
RedCappedBandit
Jul 2013
#26
What Nadin and StraightStory said + industrial espionage, intellectual property theft
Catherina
Jul 2013
#10
Hey! Wanna talk about national security surveillance, the Fourth Amendment, and SPECIFICITY?
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2013
#20
Not that big of a deal really. I'm sure a lot of ignore list additions have happened in the last
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#41
See my #85. I dont ignore people who actually have real arguments to make. nt
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#86
Their arguments decide. Do they have facts or are they emoting? How do they react when
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#92
Unlike you, I have proof when I say something. I can easily disprove what you just said.
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#85
I know, I find it funny that so many refuse to engage on the facts too!!!! LMAO!!!!!
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#105
Greenwald lives in Brazil....Brazilian companies in partnership..this is why it is a trap
HipChick
Jul 2013
#8
Damn you, Catherina, you just sent the Snowden-bashers back to the drawing board!
backscatter712
Jul 2013
#25
The Brazilians hate us for our freedom?..democracy?...privacy?...well, something.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#34
the proof is in watching neo-liberals shitting their pants over these disclosures
frylock
Jul 2013
#70
The link just leads to a news article -- there are no new Snowden documents published
FarCenter
Jul 2013
#46
Everything that is not encrypted by systems under your organization's control is assumed insecure
FarCenter
Jul 2013
#61
A new report states that the Feds scan all mail as it travels thru the Post Office.
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2013
#71
I'm not trying to be obtuse here; I'm going to ask again: What information is new?
Raine1967
Jul 2013
#82
This article is in Portuguese, in a Brazilian paper, for a Brazilian Audience
Catherina
Jul 2013
#94
Everyone every where should realize Big Brother is just trying to keep us and all
indepat
Jul 2013
#96
Bill Hicks said it so much better than I. We should all go back to our mundane existences, sousing
indepat
Jul 2013
#120
So? Our spying agency is spying on Brazil, and has been doing so for THREE DECADES.
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#153