France
French investigators persist in bypassing national legal interception platform

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.

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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
Interior ministry's first Cyber III awards favour ChapsVision

The French interior ministry has begun awarding the first contracts of the hotly-contested tender call of its Cyber III investment plan, and the contender leading the pack so far is Olivier Dellenbach's ChapsVision.

France
French legal interceptions platform plagued by blind spots

Despite the efforts that were made to get it up and running, France's legal interceptions platform, or PNIJ, still has major glitches to sort out, a Senate report has revealed.

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.

France
Justice ministry seeks sovereign solution for interceptions

To avoid the problems that plagued the PNIJ, its first interceptions platform, France's justice ministry is preparing detailed specifications for a hand-picked selection of French tender candidates.