Brazil Is Designing an Anti-NSA Email System ABC News
go to original September 5, 2013

Brazil is trying to make a national email system that will be immune to U.S. espionage.

The new email system should be working in the latter half of 2014, Brazil’s communication minister, Paulo Bernardo, told the Folha de São Paulo newspaper this week.

Plans for the anti-snooping email system got underway earlier this year, after Edward Snowden revealed some of the spying tactics used by the U.S. National Security Agency, including its practice of intercepting millions of emails and phone conversations around the globe.

Brazil was one of the countries targeted by U.S. spies, along with Mexico and several other Latin American countries, for security information as well as commercial secrets.

Bernardo said that his government had initially asked Brazil’s postal agency, Correios do Brasil, to design a secure email system that could be used by government officers and businesses who subscribed to an “encrypted” form of email.

But this week, he announced that the government now plans to make this system available to all of Brazil’s population.

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