France 'has vast data surveillance' - Le Monde report
Found on BBC News on Thursday, 04 July 2013
France's foreign intelligence service intercepts computer and telephone data on a vast scale, like the controversial US Prism programme, according to the French daily Le Monde.
The DGSE allegedly analyses the "metadata" - not the contents of e-mails and other communications, but the data revealing who is speaking to whom, when and where.
The French government has sharply criticised the US spying, which allegedly included eavesdropping on official EU communications.
They really had the nerve to put up that farce and act all shocked and angered when they criticised the US while doing just the same. Sure, everybody may be doing it; but that does not make it right.