FRANCE Accused of SPYING on its own CITIZENS in Paris version of NSA PRISM

FRANCE Accused of SPYING on its own CITIZENS in Paris version of NSA PRISM




The French external intelligence agency spies on French citizen's phone calls, emails and social media activity and web use, the Le Monde newspaper has reported.




France's external intelligence agency the DGSE, intercepts signals from computers and telephones in France and between France and other countries in order to get a pictures of who is talking to whom, although, apparently, they do not randomly spy on the content of phone calls, the daily revealed on Thursday.




Emails, text messages, telephone records, access to Facebook and Twitter are stored for years. "All of our communications are spied on," read the article quoting unnamed sources in the intelligence services as well as remarks made publicly by intelligence officials.




The DGSE allegedly stores the metadata from private communications in a basement under its Paris headquarters. All of France's seven other intelligence services have access to the data and can tap into it freely as a means to spot people's suspicious communications. Individuals can then be targeted by more intrusive techniques such as phone-tapping, it was reported. Le Monde pointed out the activities were illegal, but the French national security commission whose job it is to authorize targeted spying, and the parliamentary intelligence committee, challenged the papers report. It said that it works within the law and that the only body in France that collected communication information was a government agency controlled by the Prime Minister's office to monitor for security breaches.




The report comes after revelations that America's NSA regularly spies on its own people as well as on European citizens and embassies.




The allegations were leaked by Edward Snowden and published in the German magazine Der Spiegel, and have sparked a furious response from European governments just as a major US-EU trade talks are about to get underway.
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After much of the world was shocked by allegations that the NSA was actively spying on citizens through the PRISM program, Anonymous, a group of internet activists, released a series of documents that they claim can prove the existence of the intelligence sharing network.




Despite the U.S government confirming the existence of the seven-year initiative, some of the companies that were allegedly on board quickly denied their involvement. Major tech corporations that include Microsoft, Apple, AOL, Yahoo, Facebook and Skype were supposedly providing exclusive government access to their servers and all of the customer information contained within.




Although many would argue that it is the NSA's moral obligation to thwart potential attacks using any means necessary, the big concern is what could happen if this information were to fall into the wrong hands. After all, if Anonymous retrieved documents from an intelligence agency that should have unbeatable network security, what's stopping criminal groups from doing the same.