Europol. The European crime-fighting body made a very worrying announcement today, which adds new tensions to all the fears about 5G networks and their global launch for customers. More precisely, Catherine De Bolle, the new head of Europol, said that 5G networks prevent the authorities from intercepting communications made by criminals, which in turn prevents them from proving various crimes committed by them.
Europol. According to the new head of the European institution, it is necessary for each individual state to regulate in legislation the possibility of interceptions being made by the police, including within 5G networks, as is the case with 4G. Europol says that the police authorities participated too late in the discussions related to the 5G networks, so they could not demand the preservation of the right not to lose the ability to intercept mobile communications made through them.
Europol: 5G networks are a DANGER, they will HELP Criminals
Europol. The 5G networks will encrypt the unique identifiers that allow the identification and geolocation of mobile phone users, and this is what the new head of the European institution complains about after the first networks of this kind were launched. It is unclear what exactly she wants each European state to do since the 5G networks were designed with such a level of security, so Europol would not be able to intercept even if the states would regulate this by law, theoretically.
The biggest risk is that we are not sufficiently aware of developments at the technological level and that we must continue to be so. We must understand what is happening and we must try to provide answers to this problem. So we have to be at the table of discussions about technological development, where they discuss standardization.
Europol. Basically, 5G networks are designed for security, but this can give terrorists the ability to talk unhindered, or eliminate the need to use people for attacks, and choose to use drones, remotely controlled cars, etc. Europol fears such a future, and demands that 5G networks do not encrypt this information so that mobile phone users can be intercepted and geolocated.
Europol. The head of the European police organization says that his institution entered the discussions about these telephone networks too late, and he is perfectly right, because now few things can be changed.
