12 June 2019
The front-page article of Le Monde's printed edition was based on a Statewatch analysis. The article discusses restricted documents from Europol and the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator on the ways that 5G technology will negatively affect the wiretapping abilites of law enforcement agencies.
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"La réflexion européenne a, jusqu’ici, peu porté sur le rôle des forces de l’ordre dans la future société de la 5G où, selon les experts, 20 milliards d’appareils seront bientôt connectés. Et pourtant, la nouvelle technologie « crée la panique chez les officiels chargés de la sécurité parce qu’elle pourrait réduire dramatiquement leur capacité à mener des “interceptions légales”, plus connues sous le nom d’écoutes téléphoniques », note une récente étude de Statewatch, une ONG britannique attachée à la défense des libertés."
Full article here (paywall).
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