> Multiple EU countries have mass surveillance programs and spy on their own citizens
Stop saying things you can't prove.
> French mass surveillance program in detail.
not remotely in detail and not remotely close to what we call mass surveillance and not remotely close to what NSA does
from the article (which I have to suppose you haven't read, because it's in the first paragraph)
The agency intercepted signals from computers and phones in France as well as between France and other countries, looking not so much at content but to create a map of "who is talking to whom", the paper said.
The metadata from phone and internet use was stocked in a "gigantic database" which could be consulted by six French intelligence and security agencies as well as the police.
NSA don't simply look for metadata, they can simply ask Face.. ehm Meta for that (WhatsApp).
They actually look closely at the content.
The article also goes on saying that France haven't protested much about Prism because they have (assumingly) the largest system in Europe, after the Brits (that come way after the US)
So not "multiple countries in Europe" but a couple countries have put in place system that rivals with WhatsApp abilities to collect metadata, but WhatsApp obtain it from willing users.
Imagine what MS, Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, Oracle, and many other american corporations can collect for the NSA while hiding those activities as legit businesses and what that means for NSA: being free to focus only on everything else.
Stop saying things you can't prove.
> French mass surveillance program in detail.
not remotely in detail and not remotely close to what we call mass surveillance and not remotely close to what NSA does
from the article (which I have to suppose you haven't read, because it's in the first paragraph)
The agency intercepted signals from computers and phones in France as well as between France and other countries, looking not so much at content but to create a map of "who is talking to whom", the paper said.
The metadata from phone and internet use was stocked in a "gigantic database" which could be consulted by six French intelligence and security agencies as well as the police.
NSA don't simply look for metadata, they can simply ask Face.. ehm Meta for that (WhatsApp).
They actually look closely at the content.
The article also goes on saying that France haven't protested much about Prism because they have (assumingly) the largest system in Europe, after the Brits (that come way after the US)
So not "multiple countries in Europe" but a couple countries have put in place system that rivals with WhatsApp abilities to collect metadata, but WhatsApp obtain it from willing users.
Imagine what MS, Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, Oracle, and many other american corporations can collect for the NSA while hiding those activities as legit businesses and what that means for NSA: being free to focus only on everything else.