Revelations On the French Big Brother 98
Wrath0fb0b writes "Days after President François Hollande sternly told the United States to stop spying on its allies, the newspaper Le Monde disclosed on Thursday that France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including telephone calls, e-mails and social media activity, that come in and out of France. The report notes that 'our email messages, SMS messages, itemized phone bills and connections to FaceBook and Twitter are then stored for years.' For those Slashdot readers that grok Français, you can read the original at Le Monde or the translated version from LM."
En Français .. Espion! (Score:4, Funny)
Where we get Espionage from. Seems almost like they invented it, non?
Spy program? I told them we already got one, it's verra nice!
Re:Speak French? (Score:5, Funny)
What is French for "only a fool would be remotely surprised that any technologically advanced nation would be collecting this data"?
Le proper Nelsoning: "Le ha-ha!"