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 Whistleblower Edward Snowden, living in Russia since leaking a trove of classified documents showing the scope of post-9/11 US government surveillance, wants to claim asylum in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190914/us-whistleblower-edward-snowden-wants-to-asylum-in-france Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:51:57 +0200 us-whistleblower-edward-snowden-wants-to-asylum-in-france Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who in 2013 revealed widespread US foreign surveillance, has released a song with French electronic artist Jean-Michel Jarre, the Columbia record company announced on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160416/edward-snowden-releases-song-with-french-legend Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:26:28 +0200 edward-snowden-releases-song-with-french-legend Could the US whistleblower Edward Snowden be made an honorary citizen of France? That’s the plan of two French senators, who have proposed the controversial move in parliament, adding to the growing movement calling for the former spy to be granted asylum in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140612/snowden-an-honorary-french-citizen Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:36:00 +0200 snowden-an-honorary-french-citizen 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 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 Spy agencies in Germany, France, Spain and Sweden are carrying out mass surveillance of online and phone traffic in collaboration with Britain, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the Guardian newspaper reported Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131102/france-germany-spain-aid-uk-surveillance-snowden-docs Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:27:00 +0100 france-germany-spain-aid-uk-surveillance-snowden-docs 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 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