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Intelligence-gathering techniques: French watchdog striving to reign in DGSI's growing needs

France
France to create dedicated criminal intelligence database

France is over the next few weeks to create a dedicated database for criminal intelligence equivalent to the Cristina directory used for counter-intelligence and terrorism cases. The proposal is currently before the interior ministry's legal affairs department.

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Paris Club's Madrid meet, fired NSA ace joins CFR, cut in French intel's 2026 budget, China's retrospective scrutiny turns to PLA

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

SpainEuropean spy chiefs hold Madrid get-together

United StatesSacked by NSA, artificial intelligence whiz bounces back at think tank

FranceSpecial funding for intelligence down for 2026 budget

ChinaAfter Rocket Force, retrospective checks for PLA

France
Vincent Mazauric named new head of French intelligence-gathering monitor

The Law Committees of the French National Assembly and the Senate yesterday voted in favour of the appointment of Councillor of State Vincent Mazauric, proposed by the Elysée to chair France's intelligence-gathering monitor, the CNCTR.

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France's intercepted intelligence data to be centralised by 2027

The French intelligence-gathering techniques watchdog CNCTR has set 2027 as the target for all data collected by intelligence techniques to be centralised and remotely accessible for controls, despite pushback from some agencies.

France
Interior ministry and police fight for cyber offensive tools

The French police wants its own cyber capture capabilities but it is up against the domestic intelligence's STNCJ unit which oversees that domain.