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French special services, like their American counterparts, are in control of the telephone conversations, e-mail and social networks.  On Thursday influential French «Le Monde» newspaper informed. 

 

According to «gazeta.ru» the conversation are controlled by the General Directorate of Foreign Security (DGSE - Direction Generale de la Securité Exterieure), which is subordinate to the country's defense minister and is responsible for the French soldiers and electronic intelligence outside France. Newspaper informs that the department controls the information not only in France but also with other countries.

 

DGSE gathers information on millions of phone calls, notes the parties talking, their location, duration and date of the call. The same thing happens with the e-mail and SMS. In the department’s vision are «Google», «Facebook», «Microsoft», «Apple» and «Yahoo!».

 

«Le Monde» also notes that the gathered information is being kept for years, which is a violation of law. But the publication notes that those actions are not regulated by law. Those details are available to customs services, departments of fight against money laundering, as well as intelligence and counterintelligence. 

 

High rate of interest towards the phone conversations and correspondence is noticed among the American and British intelligence services as well. The public was informed about it after the former CIA officer Edward Snowden told the journalists about it. 

 

Moreover, it came out that Americans not only intervene with the affairs of the citizens, but also into the information of   Western European embassies and even EU institutions. German “Spiegel” newspaper informs that INB had an access to the Washington and New York-based representation of the European Union.  And the British «The Guardian» notes that the same organization has also caught information from 38 foreign embassies and diplomatic missions, including France and Italy.

 

A diplomatic row came up, «gazeta.ru» reports. As the White House announced on Thursday, on July 8, the U.S. and European Union representatives will meet to discuss the spy theme.  This issue is also discussed in a telephone conversation between U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "The two leaders hope that a conversation on the collection and storage of the information and the protection of the data will be held between U.S. and the European Union." said a White House statement. Paris as well would like to receive explanations from Washington. If the information on spying is confirmed, then the "Washington should stop making such activities." Today on «BFM-TV» TV such a statement was made by French Minister of Foreign Affairs Manuel Waltz, "ITAR-TASS" informs.