Continuing this month’s look at surveillance leaders in the United Kingdom, today we track down three providers of mobile location service: Aculab, Cambridge Consultants, and Seven Technologies. By now, mobile location is a well-recognized tool of law enforcement, intelligence agencies and the military. Using any of several technologies in combination -- GPS geolocation, … [Read more...]
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence: a Brand and a Statement
C5IS kicks off this month’s focus on the British surveillance industry with a report on BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. The United Kingdom has some 20-plus significant vendors of electronic surveillance products and services, perhaps surprising for a country Britain’s size. Then again, this is the land that developed the world’s first modern foreign intelligence agency … [Read more...]
Israel’s Cellebrite: Will a Court Decision Dim U.S. Sales?
On June 25, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police need a warrant before seizing a suspect’s mobile device as evidence. While the immediate impact of media coverage came and went, the ripple effect -- if it grows -- could rock profits of companies that specialize in mobile forensics. Heading the list of those potentially vulnerable are Katana Forensics, SecureView, … [Read more...]