Signals Intelligence

  Bottom Line Up Front The U.S. is continuing its aggressive campaign against the growing influence of Chinese telecom giant Huawei as countries move toward 5G infrastructure. Particularly noteworthy is the adoption of Huawei infrastructure by ‘Five Eyes’ countries, America’s closest and most trusted allies in information sharing and intelligence ...

Surveillance law is absolutely necessary because it compels the government to write down, for all to clearly see, the rules that they must abide by as they undertake intrusive powers, often in secret, to investigate criminal activity and protect a country. To do so is to protect the rule of ...

On November 29, Royal Assent was given to the UK Investigatory Powers Act, after eight months of intensive Parliamentary scrutiny, with hundreds of amendments made, following lengthy pre-legislative debate in three Parliamentary Committees.  The Act draws on the input from three separate, independent inquiries that were set up after a ...

On January 1st, the United Kingdom began the implementation of the Investigatory Powers Act, widely considered the most comprehensive—and intrusive—surveillance law in the Western world. The Act authorizes government access to bulk datasets such as travel logs, financial transactions, biometrics, the interception of digital communications data, the hacking of devices, ...