"[A]s the headline suggests, the crux of the main article details how the NSA has, for years, systematically tapped into the Brazilian telecommunication network and indiscriminately intercepted, collected and stored the email and telephone records of millions of Brazilians. The story follows an article in Der Spiegel last week, written by Laura Poitras and reporters from that paper, detailing the NSA's mass and indiscriminate collection of the electronic communications of millions of Germans."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/nsa-brazilians-globo-spying
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/nsa-brazilians-globo-spying