Intelligence agency has spied on French public’s phone calls, emails and internet activity, says Le Monde newspaper […]
When revelations about the Prism programme harvesting citizens’ data emerged, the French government did not immediately comment. But after fresh allegations about the US spying on the European Union and foreign embassies, including the French embassy in Washington, the president, François Hollande, said these practices must “cease immediately”. France demanded the suspension of talks on the EU-US free trade pact until it had received full explanations about surveillance.
[…] Asked about the US spying, Fleur Pellerin, the junior minister for the digital economy, told BFMTV this week that she found the “generalised surveillance of citizens” was “particularly shocking”. […]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/04/france-electronic-spying-operation-nsa