By Peter Allen and Helen Collis PUBLISHED: 06:27 EST, 21 October 2013 | UPDATED: 08:00 EST, 21 October 2013 'Totally unacceptable': France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, pictured in Luxembourg, summoned the US ambassador to the Elysee Palace to explain himself American spies secretly listened in to 70.3 million private phone calls in France over less than one month, it emerged today. The astonishing figure gives an indication of just how easy it is for the US to monitor people’s activities across Europe and has caused outrage in France. The country's foreign minister has summoned the US ambassador 'immediately' to the Elysee Palace to explain himself and has described America's espionage activities as 'totally unacceptable'.
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Calls by certain phone numbers were automatically recorded by the NSA
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Angered French foreign minister has summoned US ambassador to explain
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Data is latest to surface from Edward Snowden's leaked NSA documents
The scale of spying by @placeholder on French individuals and companies was revealed in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the whistleblower and former contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA).