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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNSA spying on Petrobras, if proven, is industrial espionage: Rousseff
(Reuters) - Reports that the United States spied on Brazilian oil company Petrobras, if proven, would be tantamount to industrial espionage and have no security justification, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday.
Brazil's Globo television network reported on Sunday that the U.S. National Security Agency hacked into the computer networks of Petrobras and other companies, including Google Inc., citing documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The report came as Brazil is preparing to auction rights to tap some of the largest oil finds in the world in recent decades, deposits trapped under a salt layer off its Atlantic coast. State-run Petrobras, Brazil's largest company and a source of national pride, made the discoveries in recent years and will be a mandatory partner in developing all of the new deep-sea fields.
The Globo report added tension to relations between Washington and Brasilia already strained by previous disclosures of NSA spying on internet communications in Brazil, including email messages and phone calls of Rousseff herself.
An angry Rousseff has repeatedly demanded an explanation. At stake is a state visit by Rousseff to the White House on October 23 to meet President Barack Obama and discuss a possible $4 billion jet fighter deal, cooperation on oil and biofuels technology, as well as other commercial agreements.
"If the facts reported by the press are confirmed, it will be evident that the motive for the spying attempts is not security or the war on terrorism but strategic economic interests," Rousseff said in a statement.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/09/us-usa-security-snowden-petrobras-idUSBRE98817N20130909
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NSA spying on Petrobras, if proven, is industrial espionage: Rousseff (Original Post)
FarCenter
Sep 2013
OP
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)1. Two reasons for this monstrous system:
1. Total information awareness for PROFIT
and
2. A surveillance state to eliminate resistance by those who are being exploited for PROFIT.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)2. yeah, but it's not a crime when WE do it....
We're so exceptional.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)3. Rousseff better be careful.
Obama doesn't like his imperial majesty challenged. South American leaders should know their place...
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)4. Profit is the point, Silly!
She never loved Him...
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)5. kick