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New telephone tapping technology for police

01 March 2004

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Spanish internal security forces (the national police and the paramilitary Guardia Civil) have access to a new IT programme, called SITEL, that allows the interception of any telephone without the intervention of telephone companies. Police officers could previously have access to information concerning owners of intercepted telephones, but not about the people with whom they were communicating (this data was held by telephone companies), they will now be automatically capable of checking the personal data of the people who they call, and to discover the location of their telephones, including mobiles. This technology results from a competition for a contract to develop this telephone tapping technology that was held by the Interior Ministry in 2001, and it is currently being installed. The name of the firm to whom the contract was adjudicated has not been disclosed.

EsCULcA bulletin, n.4, March 2004.

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