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BRAZIL'S PLANS FOR A $250 MILLION SPY-PROOF UNDERWATER CABLE TO EUROPE

Brazil has outlined plans for a $250 million underwater cable to Europe, intended to make it harder for the U.S. to spy on them, according toBloomberg.

The cable, for phone and Internet communications, could be operational by 2017, and Google and Facebook have “shown an interest” in using it, too, Brazil’s Communications Minister Andre Figueiredo said on Tuesday.

It was revealed in 2013 as part of information disclosed by Edward Snowden that the U.S. had been monitoring the communications of numerous foreign leaders, including Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil. In a speech, Rousseff later called the surveillance a “breach of international law.”

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