Google – AFP, 28 August 2013
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Protesters
demonstrate against US surveillance outside the US consulate
in Hamburg, Germany,
on July 11, 2013 (DPA/AFP/File, Angelika Warmuth)
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PARIS —
French prosecutors are investigating alleged US spying under the PRISM
surveillance programme following complaints by two human rights groups, sources
close to the case said Wednesday.
They
launched an investigation on July 16 into fraudulent access to personal data
and personal correspondence following complaints by the International
Federation of Human Rights and the League of Human Rights, the sources said.
The
complaint also targets the role played by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Paltak,
Facebook, YouTube, Skype, AOL and Apple in the alleged espionage.
PRISM is
said to give the US National Security Agency and FBI easy access to the systems
of nine of the world's top Internet companies including Google, Facebook,
Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Skype.
A lawyer
for the two groups, Emmanuel Daoud, said they wanted to determine whether these
firms had cooperated with US intelligence gathering and made their servers
available to the FBI and NSA.
If the
companies had done so, they could face criminal charges in France for violating
data protection and privacy rules, he said.
There has
been deep concern in Europe about the alleged abuses of privacy.
Documents
leaked by former CIA worker Edward Snowden suggest that Britain's electronic
eavesdropping centre GCHQ has had access to a US Internet-monitoring programme
since at least June 2010.
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