Orange Gives All Access Of Their Data To French Intelligence

According to new Document leaked by Edward Snowden, Orange has been illegally cooperating with French intelligence. The incident was investigated by Le Monde; the DGSE was having all access to Orange’s data. Orange in the leading telecom company in France with more than 25 Million users and clients these users are communicating with several thousands of non Orange clients. Each and every one in country is concerned about the matter and no statement has come out from the French government. No regulation has say in this relationship between Orange and agencies and the data was shared with GCHQ in the UK too. The state owns 27 percent of the company but Orange has operated as private for years but when it comes to bulk collection it still works as state owned.

TechCrunch Said “Orange employees help the DGSE create and develop new tools to collect and analyze data. Contrarily to PRISM, it’s not just an agreement between the government and big Internet companies, it’s an implicit “joint venture” that has been going on for around 30 years. Both the government and the DGSE had no comment on the allegations. Orange CEO Stéphane Richard said that he wasn’t aware of what the DGSE was doing. He just granted access to Orange for employees of the DGSE in order to comply with the law. The three other main telecom companies denied the existence of similar programs with them.”

Last year, Le Monde found that French government has PRISM like spying program, which is specially design to collect bulk data like call history, recipient, Size of the text Emails subjects and other Mata data. This program was also design to target communication on phone, emails and data from Tech companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft.