French telecom operator, Orange, threatens to sue NSA over cable tapping
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So Orange is suing a U.S. government agency under French law? Unless the NSA or its EU affiliates beneficially own assets in the EU (that can be traced to it) this is a PR ploy.
"An Orange spokeswoman was quoted by Reuters as saying: "We will take legal action in the next few days because we want to know more about the eventuality that Orange data may have been intercepted."
Orange is yet to decide to whether to take an individual action or to join the current legal action launched against the federal project.
Under the surveillance programme, the federal government had collected metadata including telephone numbers, times and dates of calls, calling card numbers and the serial numbers of phones processed by various operators in the country."
with all these "big brother" news, I almost forgot about the submarine cables - which is a simple way to get all the data.