Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff took her campaign against US spying to the UN on Tuesday, opening the organisation’s annual general assembly with a strong attack on foreign espionage using the internet.
The president, who last week postponed what would have been Brazil’s first state visit to Washington in nearly two decades over the issue, proposed a set of international norms to guarantee privacy on the internet.
“We are ... confronting a case of grave violations of human rights and civil liberties as well as the invasion and capture of secret information about the activities of companies and above all, disrespect for the national sovereignty of my country,” she told the assembly.