Tag: European Investigation Order
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Project SMILE: Interface for European telecommunications interception
The European Investigation Order in criminal matters allows judicial authorities in all EU Member States to instruct each other to collect evidence. It also sets forth provisions for cross-border telecommunications surveillance. The European standardisation institute ETSI is consequently working on…
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E-evidence: Internet companies in the USA to facilitate direct enquiries by European authorities
When conducting digital investigations, authorities often run up against the problem that the data they are looking for is stored on servers abroad or that service providers do not respond to requests. The European Commission is therefore working to develop…
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New EU network of judicial authorities to combat the “challenges stemming from encryption”
The European Union intends to simplify investigative authorities’ access to encrypted content. This emerged from the replies to a questionnaire that was circulated to all Member States by the Slovak Presidency of the EU Council. After a “reflection process”, efforts in this…