France
French legal interceptions platform plagued by blind spots

France
French cybersecurity expert ChapsVision in interception platform lobbying offensive

With French judicial authorities toughening their stance, cybersecurity expert ChapsVision has stepped up its lobbying to try to make it easier to circumvent the PNIJ interception platform. So far, to no avail.

France
French justice ministry's PNIJ intercept platform shunned by investigators

France's agency for digital judicial investigation techniques and the justice ministry are trying to limit circumvention of the PNIJ national digital interceptions platform. With private providers improving their solutions, in-house modules are also being developed and pressure put on magistrates to change their habits.

France
Gabonese president's top wiretapper builds business network in French homeland

Jean-Charles Solon, who survived last year's coup to retain command of Gabon's electronic surveillance agency, has set up several companies in France.

The Tech Telegraph
EU's 'Going Dark' report, Addevice moves into security, Michael Weigand leaves Shift5

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

BrusselsEU police data access report pushes for cooperation with messaging platforms over intrusion

YerevanAddevice plugs its tech to security firms

WashingtonShift5 co-founder Michael Weigand quits

France
French investigators persist in bypassing national legal interception platform

France's Plateforme Nationale des Interceptions Judiciaires is being snubbed by investigators who increasingly prefer to use private operators.

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ChapsVision, Singapore delegation in Rennes, low-cost SIGINT for Kyiv

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

ParisServices concerned by build of French technical intelligence monopoly around ChapsVision

RennesInterior minister pampers Singapore delegation

KyivUkrainian troops on the front bulk up on low-cost SIGINT

France
French gendarmes top users of legal interception platform

In 2022, users of the French national interception platform PNIJ made 46,000 legal interception requests and filed 2.9 million requests for connection data. The Gendarmerie is the platform's number one user.

Spotlight | Cyprus, France, Israel
France strengthens Middle East interceptions apparatus to cover Israel-Palestine crisis

The Cyprus resort of Paphos is home to a French interceptions facility currently being reinforced as the crisis in the Middle East deepens. France is also looking to beef up its analysis as it starts to communicate more on its intelligence.

France
Intelligence service providers flock to France's Cyber III tender despite funding doubts

Intelligence specialists want to collaborate to make broader offers to the French Interior Ministry's call for tenders for its major four-year Cyber III investment plan, despite concerns about the budget.

Spotlight | France
French interior ministry seeks new investigation platform

The French interior ministry has set the process in motion to replace its investigative platform Analyst Notebook, designed by UK firm I2 Group. This potentially lucrative contract is drawing specialists in the field in droves.

France
Newcomer ChapsVision makes acquisition play for geolocation veteran Deveryware

ChapsVision is now in exclusive negotiations to take control of Deveryware, an acquisition that would further bolster a group angling for some of the French government's most sensitive technical intelligence contracts.

France
ChapsVision takes up strong position in interceptions thanks to Elektron takeover

ChapsVision, which is determined to take up a dominant position among French cyber intelligence industry, has taken control of French interceptions specialist Elektron from the waning Nexa Technologies group.