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The Fourth of July saw a flurry of news related to the U.S. National Security Agency's intelligence-gathering efforts. Here's a rundown. Read this article by Edward Moyer on CNET News. 
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Sacrebleu! The NSA isn't the only security agency to collect data.
Sacrebleu! The NSA isn’t the only security agency that’s collecting data. In fact, France’sPRISM-like program is going very strong withmillions of trillions of metadata elements stored in a Parisian basement, according to a report from French newspaper Le Monde. The program targets phone communications, emails and data from Internet giants, such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! It is deemed illegal by the CNIL, the French data protection authority, but it is not as clear as it seems.
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Sacrebleu! The NSA isn’t the only security agency that’s collecting data. In fact, France’sPRISM-like program is going very strong withmillions of trillions of metadata elements stored in a Parisian basement, according to a report from French newspaper Le Monde.
The program targets phone communications, emails and data from Internet giants, such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! It is deemed illegal by the CNIL, the French data protection authority, but it is not as clear as it seems.
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As civil rights activists in New York, San Francisco, and across the U.S. celebrated the Fourth of July by protesting the National Security Agency's intelligence-gathering practices, several surveillance-related news items appeared. Here's a roundup:
France's Le Monde newspaper reported Thursday that the country's Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) -- an intelligence and national security agency under the direction of the defense ministry -- has been illegally intercepting e-mails, texts, phone calls, and Web activity within France and between France and other countries, an effort similar to the NSA's PRISM-related efforts.A MUST READ...