It turns out France has its own large scale PRISM-like program.
Surprise, surprise. I bet Germany does, too. One reason these EU countries haven't been screaming about PRISM.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-france-operates-prism-spy-network-19579849#.UdX8IDn3CYM
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 emails, 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.
The vast archive, which Le Monde says amounts to tens of millions of gigabytes, is accessible to France's other spy agencies, including military intelligence, domestic intelligence, Paris police and a special financial crimes task force.
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