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So now it has been alleged that the French have a surveillance program that's virtually the same as PRISM.
Did anyone really think normal governments don't spy on each other, even if they are allies?
PARIS (AP) — A leading French newspaper says France's intelligence services have put in place a giant electronic surveillance gathering network.
Citing no sources, the Le Monde daily says France's Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, the country's foreign intelligence agency, systematically collects information about all electronic data sent by computers and telephones in France, as well as communications between France and abroad.
According to Le Monde, data on "all e-mails, SMSs, telephone calls, Facebook and Twitter posts" are collected and stored in a massive three-floor underground bunker at the DGSE's headquarters in Paris. The paper specified that it is the communications' metadata — such as when was call was made and where an author was when she sent an email — that is being archived, not their content.
Officials at the DGSE did not answer phone calls or emails seeking comment Thursday.
Did anyone really think normal governments don't spy on each other, even if they are allies?