By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil will drop a controversial provision that would have forced global Internet companies to store data on Brazilian users inside the country to shield them from U.S. spying, a government minister said on Tuesday. The rule was added last year to proposed Internet governance legislation after revelations that the […]
Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden has written an open letter to the people of Brazil, offering to help the Brazilian government investigate US spying, and making a veiled plea for permanent political asylum. David Miranda, the partner of outspoken Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald, later published an English-language version of the letter to his […]
By Anthony Boadle and Esteban Israel BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A government plan to shield Brazil from alleged U.S. spying by forcing global Internet companies to store data on Brazilian users inside the country has run into mounting opposition in Congress, politicians said on Monday. The legislation was proposed by President Dilma Rousseff following revelations […]
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