The French nuclear energy firm EDF has been outed for paying investigators to infiltrate the country's anti-nuclear energy movement. Pierre François, firm's production security division has admitted to organizing the far-reaching surveillance since 2002.

Enviro-group Greenpeace has also alledged that EDF attempted to hack into the nonproft's private computer network, a charge that EDF denies. As you'll see in this piece from the FT, there is assuridly more to that story.

-- MDT

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