French government spying on their citizens just like the USA does ...

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France 'runs vast electronic spying operation using NSA-style methods' | World news | guardian.co.uk

France runs a vast electronic surveillance operation, intercepting and stocking data from citizens' phone and internet activity, using similar methods to the US National Security Agency's Prism programme exposed by Edward Snowden, Le Monde has reported.

An investigation by the French daily found that the DGSE, France's external intelligence agency, had spied on the French public's phone calls, emails and internet activity. The agency intercepted signals from computers and phones in France as well as between France and other countries, looking not so much at content but to create a map of "who is talking to whom", the paper said.

Le Monde said data from emails, text messages, phone records, accessing of Facebook and Twitter, and internet activity going through sites such as Google, Microsoft or Yahoo! was stocked for years on vast servers on three different floors in the basement of the DGSE headquarters.

:wow2:

 

[p00rky]

All those countries do it. At least the UK lets you know upfront. lol

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

All those countries do it.

 

[Shogun]

All those countries do it. At least the UK lets you know upfront. lol

and those that dont would if they had the resources.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

once one has the technology, they all do, eventually.

 

[mbewane]

European govts didn't get "mad" at the US because the US was spying on American citizens (every country "spies" on its own citizens), but because the US is spying on European citizens in Europe. The opposite has not been proven yet.

 

[unit321]

Who cares about France? I don't.