Re:U.S. judge rules search warrants extend to overseas email...
by rakoo on Saturday April 26, 2014 @05:39PM
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> I omitted Germany and France since they seem to not wire tap
You can remove France from that very short list. It has been revealed that France does its own surveillance on its own population, and exchanges this data with the USA through the Lustre program [0], revealed in a German newspaper [1].
What's even more interesting is that the USA has little penetration in Africa's surveillance, but due to its history, France has a very strong presence there: Most of the intercontinental cables end in France, and the biggest telecom operator (Orange, ex France Telecom) is present in pretty much in every french-speaking country in Africa, along with Bull-Amesys, the one that installed the shiny surveillance toy for Al-Assad.
If the USA wants intelligence on Africa, signing a deal with France was a very important move. The french press not saying anything about it says everything about the level of independence and journalism.
You can remove France from that very short list. It has been revealed that France does its own surveillance on its own population, and exchanges this data with the USA through the Lustre program [0], revealed in a German newspaper [1].
What's even more interesting is that the USA has little penetration in Africa's surveillance, but due to its history, France has a very strong presence there: Most of the intercontinental cables end in France, and the biggest telecom operator (Orange, ex France Telecom) is present in pretty much in every french-speaking country in Africa, along with Bull-Amesys, the one that installed the shiny surveillance toy for Al-Assad.
If the USA wants intelligence on Africa, signing a deal with France was a very important move. The french press not saying anything about it says everything about the level of independence and journalism.
[0] http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2013/10/30/surve...
[1] http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/codename-lustre-frankreic...