“These decisions have fundamental and far-reaching effects on the legal role of interception in future UK investigations and cases,”...

Experts suggest Parliament and Investigatory Powers Tribunal need to consider the implications of a court decision on police use of data...

Gendarmes based at the C3N digital crime unit in Pointoise, with the assistance of Dutch investigators, were able to covertly take copies...

The court found, in its written decision, that it was the responsibility of legislators to reconcile the rights of defendants to...

The campaign group, Fair Trials, denounced the constitutional court’s decision, arguing that there were clear violations of defendants’...

France’s Constitutional Council, which includes former prime ministers Laurent Fabius and Alain Juppé among its members, heard arguments...

France’s constitutional court has rejected arguments that the use of “defence secrecy” to withhold information from lawyers about a...

The malware that French law enforcement deployed en masse onto Encrochat devices, a large encrypted phone network using Android phones,...

EncroChat isn’t the only encrypted phone network police have hacked or dismantled. Breaking phone networks billed as encrypted and highly...

There is no set date for the European Court to review the case; although in another high-profile legal challenge, two British EncroChat...

The most high-profile challenge so far comes from lawyers in Germany. In October, a regional court in Berlin sent an EncroChat appeal to...

Around 60,000 people were signed up to the EncroChat phone network, which was founded in 2016, when it was busted by cops. Subscribers...

Lawyers claim investigations are flawed and that the hacked messages should not be used as evidence in court, saying rules around...

A judge chairing an Investigatory Powers Tribunal hearing into the legality of the use of material from EncroChat —an encrypted phone...

Wayne Johns was cross examined by Stephen Kamlish, KC at an Investigatory Powers Tribunal which is hearing legal challenges by 10...

A 'banker' known as 'Kun Aguero' laundered almost £300,000 of dirty cash for a drugs gang. Christopher Carroll, 35, collected and...

An officer at the French Gendarmerie’s cyber space command has claimed on social media that a decision by the French Supreme Court over...

France’s Supreme Court has referred a criminal case that relies on evidence from the hacked EncroChat encrypted phone network back to the...

The luck of a dealer who traded in blocks of drugs with shamrocks embossed on them ran out when he gave out his address during secret...

Two men who used EncroChat devices to supply class A drugs have been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court. Clifford McNamee, 47 and Nathan...