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Europol says mobile roaming tech is hampering crimefighters (www.theregister.com)
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Privacy measures apparently helping criminals evade capture

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[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

... the only alternative left for law enforcement is to issue a European Investigation Order (EIO), but responses for these can take up to 120 days, which isn't ideal when you want to catch a drug dealer who's only in the country for a weekend. "A solution to the situation described above is urgently necessary."...

Off course they target encryption. Look I understand that it is a drag to actually fix the system.. but they should target the 120 day slog of following procedure.

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That's kinda the purpose, to make it harder for the government to violate your freedoms. Only go after bad guys that are "wait 120 days bad"

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Nah.. never attribute to malice what can easily be explained by incompetence.

And I sort of get where law enforcement is coming from. I just disagree with their solution.

Now they can just do it easy. If they have to go through another country they might even have to provide a reason that will hold up to scrutiny... Think of the consequences that might have!

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

So after they failed cripling chat encryption, they're gonna target... check note foreign SIM card?

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