https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed France’s top external spying agency has had 'unchecked' access to customer communications at French telecom giant Orange for decades, according to a British document leaked by former American intelligence worker Edward Snowden. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140321/french-intelligence Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:40:00 +0100 french-intelligence LATEST: France said on Monday it would "immediately" summon the US ambassador in Paris to respond to the "shocking" claims in Le Monde newspaper on Monday that the US NSA spy agency secretly recorded millions of phone calls made in France. Le Monde cited documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131021/us-snooped-on-70-million-phone-calls-in-france Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:59:00 +0200 us-snooped-on-70-million-phone-calls-in-france Just days after France reacted angrily to claims its Washington DC embassy was spied on by the US, French daily Le Monde published 'revelations' on Thursday that French intelligence services have been operating a similar mammoth spying operation in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130704/spying-by-french-big-brother-is-out-of-control Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:26:00 +0200 spying-by-french-big-brother-is-out-of-control Political parties from across the divide in France demanded on Monday that Paris grant asylum to the fugitive former CIA operative Edward Snowden, as reward for his "courage" in blowing the lid off how the US had spied on French envoys in America. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130701/calls-grow-for-france-to-grant-snowden-asylum Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:27:00 +0200 calls-grow-for-france-to-grant-snowden-asylum