The Brazilian government has formally asked the U.S. government for clarification regarding the alleged large-scale interception of electronic communications of Brazilian citizens. The NSA intercepts telephone and email records from multiple countries, including Brazil, a newspaper reports. The newspaper published images from the documents it had access to that suggest Brazil is the most monitored country by the NSA in Latin America. The agency is also performing upstream interception of communications through a program called Fairview, the newspaper says. It’s not clear whether the local Brazilian companies are aware of how their partnerships with the unnamed US. company are being used.”]