The European Union and Brazil have agreed this week to create a massive undersea communications cable between Lisbon, Portugal and Fortaleza, Brazil that will help the nations avoid spying from the U.S.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says the cable will "guarantee the neutrality," and Rousseff has been very public with her desires to keep the country's Internet free from U.S. spying. ... [ read the full article ]
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If society would think this would stop spying from USA they can think again. There will always be ways to infiltrate a network. Also it's not like it solves anything from EU from spying on their own people which they have reportedly done.
Originally posted by Mysttic: Also it's not like it solves anything from EU from spying on their own people which they have reportedly done.
I think the point here is that in the EU we can & will deal with our own security services, thank you very much.
What we can do without is friendly nations thinking they have a right to spy on us without permission or the oversight or control we have on our own services.
Of course it's an evolving situation & we begin from a less than perfect starting point, what has gone before within the EU (& within the individual nations) is unacceptable, but at least we can find out about it & are doing something about it.
Some sort of spying (whether commercially or politically) will undoubtedly continue but nobody can be surprised that when it is discovered it damages international relations and those who think this doesn't matter are very wrong.
