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>Orange has reiterated that the privacy of correspondence and negotiations can be broken only by special court order, and that the conditions and reasons for such action should be clearly defined in French law

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.

here I found more details http://www.cbronline.com/news/tech/networks/telecoms/orange-...

"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."