But its okay as long as its us?

SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government says U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has telephoned President Dilma Rousseff in an effort to ease tensions created by the disclosure that the United States collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations in Latin America's biggest nation.
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Rousseff told Biden she wants the U.S. government to "change its security policies and practices," the communications minister said.

"The president told Biden that the privacy of Brazilian citizens and the country's sovereignty cannot be infringed in the name of security," she said.

Let's get with Brazil and apologize for our heinous actions, invite a delegation to come see how our surveillance system is really non-intrusive, and ignore the fact that Americans have the same complaint. After all, if you keep pissing off the Brazilians, they might try to kick your collective asses out of Washington!

(note the cute little double entendre on the use of "collective")