[BITList] The DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Exterieure)

[FS]

Cutting from a received email which I thought was worth sharing, it 
certainly expresses a valid thought which could help defray the cost of 
running these systems
frank


Feigning shock and outrage, reporters Jacques Follorou and Franck 
Johannès detail (with the aid of some basic graphics) how telephone 
calls, e-mails and internet activity including Facebook messages 
throughout France and beyond are stored by the DGSE (Direction Générale 
de la Sécurité Exterieure) in the style of the British GCHQ or American 
PRISM programme.

There is an argument to be had about whether it is right to store all 
such information (which the DGSE vehemently deny) or whether such action 
really does help in the prevention of terrorism or other national 
threat. But can anybody still seriously doubt that all major governments 
of the world don't gather such information, whether legally or not?

So, to the DGSE, a personal plea.When my old computer gave up the ghost 
last August and I thought I had managed to transfer all useful files to 
the new model -- I seem to have mislaid a piece about foie gras.I wonder 
if you could spare a few agents to trawl through a few billion Facebook 
pictures of cute cats and dogs, several hundred thousand potentially 
adulterously intentioned text messages and some quite heated telephone 
conversations to Orange and EDF customer service operatives, in the hope 
that it may be retrieved?

Here I shall leave the subject, as there is a man across the road, 
wearing a trilby hat and raincoat who seems to be pointing a camera 
through the window at my desk.....

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