Brazilian President Calls For New International Mechanism to Oversee Internet and Prevent Surveillance

  On September 24, 2013, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, in the opening speech at the General Assembly, delivered a stinging rebuke of electronic espionage by the National Security Agency, characterizing U.S. surveillance a “breach of international law and an affront to Brazil’s sovereignty”[1] and called on the United Nations to oversee a new global legal system to govern the internet.[2]