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I wouldn't be so casual with France. Unlike the NSA, they practice economic/industrial espionage, and they practice it against Germany[1]. http://www.france24.

• bane 11y ago
  And the U.S. http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/02/espionage-moi/ http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/02/espionage-moi/
• badsock 11y ago
  The NSA engages in industrial espionage: http://www.bbc.com/news/25907502 http://www.bbc.com/news/25907502
  • mattmcknight 11y ago
    I believe the key difference here is gathering information on technologies for national security benefit versus gathering information to be used to benefit French businesses.
    • badsock 11y ago
      I think it's naive to trust that the USA is using the NSA's surveillance capabilities for just security and not economic gain: From http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-hacked-email-account-of-mexican-president-a-928817.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-hacked-email-a... "In the space of a single year, according to the internal documents, this operation produced 260 classified reports that allowed US politicians to conduct successful talks on political issues and to plan international investments."
    • CrystalGamma 11y ago
      IIRC there are laws saying that any commercially relevant information obtained by NSA is supposed to be forwarded to domestic businesses.