Thursday, 17 October 2013

Industrial espionage is free, on the government

We know that the US, China and Israel all steal industrial secrets
quite proficiently. However, that backwater of well-adjusted
people has become the latest spying powerhouse.

Canada is not the only country to benefit from spying but
Glenn Greenwald, soon to be canonised or cooked in a
Mercedes, offered proof of just how Canada is spying on
Brazil, particularly its Mining Ministry.
Canada did/does so to help a chosen Canadian private
company with mining interests.
And thatsa the way the
fashistico game she goes. 
Canadian tax money is going to spying not for the
benefit of just anybody. It's doing it for a corporation.
Wonderful! @sarc

checkit: Press tv

‘Brazil ministry spied on by Canada’
New spying revelations show that Canadian intelligence services have spied on Brazil’s Mining and Energy Ministry.
Mon Oct 7, 2013 5:46AM GMT
A report says communications at Brazil’s Mining and Energy Ministry has been spied on by Canadian intelligence services, as the country has mining interests in the South American nation. [the business part of the country]
The new disclosure was reported by Brazilian Globo television on Sunday and was based on leaked documents by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The documents showed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had made a detailed outline of the Brazilian ministry’s communications including phone calls, emails, and internet traffic.
Brazil’s Mining and Energy Minister Edilson Lobao described the revelations as “serious” and said that it has possibly been spied on due to Canadian companies’ mining interests in the country.
    “There are many Canadian businesses interested in doing business in our country. If that is where the interest in spying comes from, to help certain business interests, I cannot say,” Lobao stated.
Canada is not the only country to have spied on Brazil’s Mining and Energy Ministry.
Reports by Globo have shown that the United States spied on the same ministry as well as on President Dilma Rousseff and her assistants.
In addition, Brazilian newspaper O Globo revealed in July citing documents leaked by Snowden that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has gathered metadata on billions of emails, phone calls and other internet data flowing through Brazil.
The US spying revelations on Brazil have greatly strained the relationship between the two countries and caused Rousseff to cancel last month a visit to Washington.
Brazil has announced that it plans to bypass the US-centric internet, with measures including storing data locally and to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to Europe and all the South American nations in order to create a network free of US surveillance….