France to open preliminary investigation about PRISM program

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Submission + - France to open preliminary investigation about PRISM program (lefigaro.fr)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @02:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Paris' prosecutor office opened a preliminary investigation after a complaint by two associations of human rights who hope to determine the roles played by companies in the context of espionage. Two million communications (phone calls, SMS ans mails) are said to have been intercepted in France by US agencies.

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