Reuters — French agency spies on phone calls, email, web use – Le Monde

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[Le Monde] said the DGSE intercepted signals from computers and telephones inFrance, and between France and other countries, although not the content of phone calls, to create a map of "who is talking to whom". It said the activity was illegal.

"All of our communications are spied on," wrote Le Monde, which based its report on unnamed intelligence sources as well as remarks made publicly by intelligence officials....

The Guardian newspaper reported last month that Britain had a similar spying program on international phone and Internet traffic and was sharing vast quantities of personal information with the American NSA.

Reuters French agency spies on phone calls, email, web use, paper says Reporting by Natalie Huet; Editing by Catherine Bremer and Kevin Liffey