Europol (la polizia dell’UE) si trova ad affrontare numerosi casi davanti alla Corte di giustizia dell’UE per accuse di pirateria informatica illegale di telefoni crittografati, manomissione di prove e inganno dei giudici (Fonte in un commento di alto livello)
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Source for the screenshot is [Joint Defence Team](https://www.joint-defense-team.com/post/encrochat-skyecc-legal-update-2025), a collection of lawyers challenging the illegal practices of many police forces.
Most countries refused to authorize the warrants for these hackings, which is why France has typically been the one carrying them out. France doesn’t have that many legal protections for people, which is why the Telegram CEO was also arrested there.
In addition, some of the warrants were obtained under highly questionable circumstances. In one notable case, the FBI illegally hacked an encrypted phone network. [Since the data gathered in the U.S. could not be used legally, the FBI transferred it to Lithuania, where Europol then obtained a warrant from a Lithuanian judge-after falsely claiming that criminal activity was occurring there.](https://www.joint-defense-team.com/post/anom-leaks) In reality, the targeted server was operated by the FBI itself and contained data that had been illegally obtained and could have been manipulated.
*Imagine a German judge denying a warrant to search a house in Germany, having American cops illegally ransacking and looting the house, moving the belongings to another house in Lithuania and then asking Lithuania to give you a warrant to search that house, that contains your belongings transferred from Cer. This is the digital equivalent of that.*
[And as if that wasn’t enough:](https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366631442/French-court-ruling-may-lead-to-legal-challenges-over-state-Sky-ECC-and-EncroChat-phone-hack)
”Individuals facing prosecution have been denied the right to challenge the lawfulness of the French hacking operations before judges in their own country, because the “mutual recognition” principle requires EU member states to accept evidence provided by other member states under European Investigation Orders (EIOs).
At the same time, people have been denied the right to challenge evidence in the French courts, leaving people charged with offences based on intercepted Sky ECC or EncroChat messages without legal recourse to appeal.”
Many people have been sent to prison
Regardless of the blatant misconductions committed by Europol, the commission wants to increase Europol’s budget
The Encrochat hack has been repsonsible for putting a **lot** of violent gang leaders behind bars in Sweden. Many lives have been saved. It has done a lot of good. Would be a shame if this dissuade similar activity in the future
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I hate the concept of Chat Control but also hate organized crime. It’s very dystopian to think that in order to protect our privacy and our rights as citizens we have to condemn Europol for taking action against Russian spy networks and drug kingpins. We can have both.
We can have a well-funded Europol (yes their budget is very small I don’t see how you describe increasing their budget is something bad) and privacy as citizens. It is a false dichotomy.
of course people support this. And this is why they do not relent on things like chat control
Can we please not mix up actual privacy concerns like Chat Control and extremely successful law enforcement operation like SkyECC and Encorchat? These were encrypted phones used by criminals with only a tiny percentage of users being lawyers/activists. Up to 15K criminals have been or will be arrested/prosecuted in Europe (5K+ just in Belgium alone). Europe’s biggest anti-crime operation in decades. And I 100% support it. I don’t even want to think about how much worse things would be in the Benelux if they didn’t crack SkyECC.
We need to distinguish an encrypted communication channel that was *specifically designed for and by criminals (usually with 10K-100K users)*, and other encrypted communication channels that happen to be used by criminals alongside normal citizens (tens of millions of users).
Privacy maximalists that have absolutely no sense of reality and will casually side organized criminals by default hurts real privacy activism such as the movement to stop Chat Control.
Very interesting corruption porn.