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Re:How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for ... by TomMarius on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:08AM (#23712720)
Police has legal rights (given they do it by protocol and with judicial oversight) for most kinds of interception and monitoring, whether they do it by force or by asking does not matter - in most or all of EU.
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Re:How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for ... by fulafel on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:58AM (#23713922)
Not so - you need evidence backed suspicion of a serious crime in the eu jurisdictions I know of. And even then it needs to be narrowly targeted to individuals.
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Re:How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for ... by rusk on Friday July 03, 2020 @04:00AM (#23722000)
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted cause this is my understanding of the legality too ...

In my mind the key is that it’s the French that did it ...

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