Friday, July 5, 2013

France Has A Data Gathering Program Comparable To The NSA's PRISM Program

Here’s the building where the PRISM of France is storing all its citizens’ data. A good way to highlight where your sensitive military installations are is to ask Google Maps to blur them out. Google

France 'Runs Vast Electronic Spying Operation Using NSA-Style Methods' -- The Guardian

Intelligence agency has spied on French public's phone calls, emails and internet activity, says Le Monde newspaper

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.

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More News On France's Data - Surveillance Program

'French Big Brother' hit by spying claims -- The Local
France 'has vast data surveillance' - Le Monde report -- BBC
France accused of spying on its own people in Paris version of Prism -- The Telegraph
Report: France data gathering program compared to PRISM -- USA Today/AP
French intelligence spying on emails, phonecalls: newspaper -- FOX News/AFP
French agency spies on phone calls, email, web use, paper says -- Reuters
'French PRISM' revealed: All communications tracked, metadata collected -- RT
France, Too, Is Collecting Data, Newspaper Reveals -- New York Times
France Says 'No' to Snowden After They're Busted for Spying, Too -- Atlantic Wire
Eye on surveillance: France's PRISM, EU's concerns -- CNet
Here’s the building where the PRISM of France is storing all its citizens’ data -- Quartz
France has its own PRISM-like web and phone metadata surveillance effort, report says -- The Verge

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