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 Germany's foreign intelligence agency targeted France's foreign minister Laurent Fabius for surveillance as well as members of their own diplomatic service, German media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151111/german-spies-targeted-french-foreign-minister Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:35:16 +0100 german-spies-targeted-french-foreign-minister More revelations emerged on Tuesday of US spying on French targets, with reports claiming the NSA systematically snooped on the country's biggest companies and all business deals valued over $200 million. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150630/us-spying-france-companies-nsa-snowden-wikileaks Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:24:02 +0200 us-spying-france-companies-nsa-snowden-wikileaks A petition calling for France to grant asylum to American NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has garnered over 33,000 signatures in less than 12 hours. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140603/petition-calls-for-snowden-to-be-granted-asylum-in-france Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:08:00 +0200 petition-calls-for-snowden-to-be-granted-asylum-in-france 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 Governments in the "free world" are some of the worst offenders when it comes to spying, France-based media watchdog "Reporters Sans Frontières" declared on Wednesday. America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ are among the worst offenders, the group said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140312/free-world Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:00:00 +0100 free-world German Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss the concept of creating a European Internet when she meets French President François Hollande this week. Her proposal is aimed at preventing US intelligence agencies from being able to intercept data. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140217/france-and-germany-to-discuss-european-internet Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:30:00 +0100 france-and-germany-to-discuss-european-internet On the occasion of President François Hollande's visit to the US, he and American President Barack Obama said on Tuesday they have settled differences over digital spying efforts revealed by leaker Edward Snowden. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140211/france-and-us Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:57:00 +0100 france-and-us France on Wednesday slammed as "unlikely" US allegations that European spy agencies shared phone call records with US intelligence, as a transatlantic surveillance row intensified. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131030/france-hits-back-at-us-spying-allegations Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:42:00 +0100 france-hits-back-at-us-spying-allegations The US intelligence chief said on Tuesday that articles published by the French newspaper Le Monde about America's espionage activities abroad "contain inaccurate and misleading information." https://www.thelocal.fr/20131023/le-monde-spy-claims-inaccurate-us-intel-chief Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:17:00 +0200 le-monde-spy-claims-inaccurate-us-intel-chief US President Barack Obama had some explaining to do on Monday night when he phoned his French counterpart François Hollande over claims that a US spy agency had recorded millions of French calls. Hollande told Obama he "deeply disapproved" of spying on allies. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131022/hollande-tells-obama-spying-is-unacceptable Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:29:00 +0200 hollande-tells-obama-spying-is-unacceptable 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 France’s Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has banned government ministers and their staff from using their smartphones and tablets to transmit sensitive information, according to a media report on Tuesday. The move is apparently motivated by fears they could be spied on. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130910/pm-orders-smartphone-crackdown-over-spying Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:56:00 +0200 pm-orders-smartphone-crackdown-over-spying A court in Paris has opened a formal investigation into the PRISM program of electronic surveillance run by the US National Security Agency, and revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, it emerged on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130828/breaking-france-opens-probe-into-us-spying Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:30:00 +0200 breaking-france-opens-probe-into-us-spying France's data protection agency demanded on Monday that the EU investigate US spying revealed by whistle-blower Edward Snowden. The CNIL agency claimed EU laws had been "possibly breached" by electronic surveillance conducted by the NSA. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130819/french-agency-demands-eu-probe-us-spying Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:20:00 +0200 french-agency-demands-eu-probe-us-spying