International Reactions to U.S. Cybersecurity Policy: The BRICS undersea cable - Jackson School of International Studies
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Internationally, Snowden’s revelation about the extent of U.S government surveillance was met with great anger. Governments began asking questions about what could be done to avoid U.S. surveillance. The BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—had already begun thinking about the idea of a global Internet without the U.S. at its center, but Snowden’s release provided the impetus to propel the issue. One element of this was the development of a BRICS undersea cable system. Undersea cables are one of the physical elements of the Internet, carrying the Internet around the globe.