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Google shuttles DNS queries from Brazil back to US |
October 31, 2013
Google is using U.S.-based servers to answer website address queries from Brazil after the country's president proposed stronger privacy laws, according to an Internet monitoring company.Renesys wrote on Wednesday that Google began pushing DNS (Domain Name System) queries from Brazil to U.S.-based servers around Sept. 12, the same day President Dilma Rousseff expressed support for a law requiring Internet companies to hold data collected on the country's citizens locally.Her comments came after documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden showed that she and Brazil were spied on by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).When queried, a Google spokeswoman wrote via email on Oct. 23 that "these two events are unrelated" but did not further explain the shift.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2059820/google-shuttles-dns-queries-from-brazil-back-to-us.html#tk.rss_all
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