As the NSA spying scandal ripples across the world, French human rights organizations announced Thursday they are taking legal action against US spying that they say violated civil liberties and left no French citizen safe.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Human Rights League jointly filed a suit Thursday demanding the French government investigate not only NSA’s Prism surveillance program, but also the cyber companies—including Facebook, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Skype—that were party to the unlawful snooping.
An FIDH lawyer declared the spying an unprecedented and “massive attack on individual liberties by a foreign state, because it potentially concerns every French citizen and internet user,” the Guardian reports.
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