A court decision banning mobile monitoring undermines France's 2015 Intelligence Act - but the legal fight isn't over yet. European public furor over the UK's Investigatory Powers Act - approved by Parliament in November 2016 and blessed by the Queen shortly after - overshadowed controversy on surveillance law in a nearby country arguably the most severely impacted by recent … [Read more...]
Italy’s iPS – From Lawful Intercept to Dark Web
Founded in the year 2000, iPS is one of two companies operated by the RESI Group, a holding company based in Aprilia, Italy. The other half is RESI, a network management systems and cybersecurity business that dates to 1987. The fraternal twins share a single campus in Aprilia, top global clients like Telecom Italia and Deutsche Telekom, and a sizable in-house R & D team … [Read more...]
Italy’s AREA SpA: Lesson in the Importance of Legal Awareness
When a company is in the business of serving law enforcement, generally it is inadvisable to act like a scofflaw. Yet such appears to be the case with Milan's AREA SpA, a well-established ISS vendor noted for its work in lawful intercept, mobile location, IP monitoring, data retention, and more recently "post-Trojan" surveillance involving work in the Deep and Dark Webs. For … [Read more...]
Telesoft Data Retention Probe Fingerprints Targets on IPv4 Mobile Nets
A new Telesoft Data Retention Probe that easily manhandles the challenges of monitoring targets on IPv4 mobile networks is now hitting the marketplace. Telesoft’s breakthrough is timely on two counts: public policy and technology. The United Kingdom’s recently enacted Investigatory Powers Bill mandates that all service providers offering Internet connectivity maintain IP Data … [Read more...]
How Thales PNij Leaves France Vulnerable to Terrorism
Few nations outside the Middle East war zones have suffered more horrific terrorist attacks as France. The two worst incidents, in Paris Nov. 13, 2015 and Nice July 14, 2016, followed France’s deployment of a system designed to prevent such attacks - Thales PNij (Plateforme Nationale des Interceptions Judiciaires). According to French law enforcement officers the PNij is so … [Read more...]