French lawsuit filed over NSA and FBI snooping
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Two French human rights groups filed a complaint on Thursday that targets the US National Security Agency, the FBI and seven giant companies they say may have assisted the United States to snoop on French citizens' emails and phone calls.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the French Human Rights League (LDH) named Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Paltalk, Facebook, AOL and Apple as "potential accomplices" of the NSA and FBI in their complaint.
A prosecutor will now decide whether to open an investigation.
The complaint accuses the NSA and FBI for setting up Prism, and suggests the seven US companies may have provided them with the technical means to access their servers and collect personal information.
The NSA, the FBI or the Justice Department hasn’t responded to the complaint yet. While both Facebook and Google argued the companies did not give government agencies direct access to their servers.
Based on reports provided by Snowden, a former American spy agency contractor, German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the U.S. National Security Agency had tapped EU offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks.
According to a resolution passed by the European Parliament on July 4, the parliament will conduct an "in-depth inquiry" into the US surveillance programs, including the bugging of EU premises and other spying allegations, and present its results by the end of this year.
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