France has its own PRISM-like web and phone metadata surveillance effort, report says

France has its own PRISM-like web and phone metadata surveillance effort, report says Jul 4th 2013, 15:22, by Carl Franzen America is not alone when it comes to intelligence programs designed to monitor internet and phone communications. As it turns out, France also has its own system similar to the US National Security Agency's PRISM internet surveillance and phone metadata collections efforts, according to a new report today from French newspaper Le Monde. The newspaper states that the French program is conducted by the country's intelligence agency Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), and that it collects the metadata of phone and internet communications throughout the country, including traffic from such popular web services as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo, companies that were also said to be included in the US's own PRISM... Continue reading…