NSA took 70.3M French records in 30 days
Le Monde newspaper says documents leaked by Edward Snowden
show that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up 70.3 million French phone
records in a 30-day period. The French government has summoned the U.S. ambassador
to explain why the Americans spied on one of their closest allies.
The NSA
surveillance program, found that when certain numbers were used, the
conversations were automatically recorded. The surveillance operation also
swept up text messages based on key words, Le Monde reported, based on records
from Dec. 10 to Jan 7. Similar programs have been revealed in Britain and
Germany.
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