Top Eurocops are appealing for help from lawmakers to undermine a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) they say is hampering criminal investigations – and it's not end-to-end encryption this time. Not exactly.
Mobile communication: continue roaming!
Europol today published a position paper highlighting its concerns about SMS home routing – the technology that allows telecoms companies to continue offering their services when customers visit another country.
Most modern mobile phone users are tied to a network with roaming arrangements in other countries. EE customers in the UK will connect to either Telefónica or Xfera when they land in Spain, or T-Mobile in Croatia, for example.
While this usually provides a fairly smooth service for most roamers, Europol now says something needs to be done about the PETs that are often enabled in these home routing settings.
