Brazil's senate will invite the country managers of internet giants Facebook and Google to provide clarification on reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has conducted espionage activities on Brazilian communications with the support of telcos and internet companies, according to federal news agency Agencia Brasil and the senate website.
There is no definite date for these hearings to take place. As the summons is an invitation rather than mandatory, the executives could decline to attend.
The ministers of justice and defense, Jos? Eduardo Cardozo and Celso Amorim, together with the national security cabinet chief-of-staff Jos? Elito, are expected in hearings on Wednesday.
Communications minister Paulo Bernardo, as well as the US ambassador to Brazil, Thomas Shannon, should also take part in the hearings in the coming days. In addition, the senate is considering inviting the journalists who revealed the case in O Globo newspaper.
On Tuesday (July 9), Brazilian telcos associations SindiTelebrasil and companies including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple all denied involvement in the case, emphasizing their compliance with Brazilian legislation in providing user information only under court order.
REPUDIATION MOTION
In related news, Brazil's lower house approved a repudiation motion against the US government on the issue.
The motion cites the fifth article of the Brazilian constitution, which stipulates the inviolability of the secrecy of correspondence and of telegraphic communications, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"[We state our] condemnation of the spying on and monitoring of billions of emails, phone calls and data from Brazilian companies and citizens, as well as the government, allegedly carried out by intelligence agencies of the United States, which violate the rights of Brazilian citizens and companies and undermine national sovereignty," says the motion.
In the motion, the lower house added that it plans to take this "serious case" to the United Nations and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
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