Snowden Leaks Show Canada Was Spying on Brazil

Brazil is accusing Canada of spying on her mining and energy industries.

Citing information released by Edward Snowden, via reporter Glenn Greenwald, Brazil's government says they have proof the spying.

Snowden leaks began in June of 2012 and have mostly caused harm to US relations with various countries.

Now, however, Canada is feeling the backlash as some of the information gave details about their spying program.

According to the documents, the Communications Security Establishment of Canada was hacking phones, the internet, and social media to gather the intel.

CSEC is mandated to safeguard Canadian government communications and computers from foreign hackers, to help other federal security agencies where legally possible, and to gather foreign intelligence.

Per the documents it seems that CSEC was as over zealous as the NSA in carrying out their duties.