The infiltration by police investigators of the EncroChat messaging service, dubbed the “Crime Chat Network” by major media outlets, has so far led to over 800 arrests and multiple prosecutions across Europe. This has included members of Organised Crime Groups (OCGs) engaged in serious and significant criminal offending. Encrypted digital data platforms are legal and there can be genuine and legitimate motivations for their use however, the potential benefits of encrypted platforms for organised crime have not gone unnoticed by OCGs and criminal enforcement agencies. One such platform was EncroChat. The EncroChat system utilised software on Android handsets allowing users to engage directly in encrypted communication with other EncroChat users through a unique identifier or “handle”. According to Europol, by “early 2020, EncroChat was one of the largest providers of encrypted digital communication with a very high share of users presumably engaged in criminal activity.” (https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/dismantling-of-encrypted-network-sends-shockwaves-through-organised-crime-groups-across-europe, accessed 22.05.2022).

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截获的通信作为证据：从加密消息服务 EncroChat 获得的材料的可接受性：R v A、B、D & C [2021] EWCA Crim 128

警方调查人员对被主要媒体称为“犯罪聊天网络”的 EncroChat 消息服务进行渗透，迄今已导致欧洲 800 多人被捕和多起起诉。这包括参与严重和重大刑事犯罪的有组织犯罪集团 (OCG) 的成员。加密数字数据平台是合法的，使用它们可能有真实和合法的动机，但是，加密平台对有组织犯罪的潜在好处并没有被 OCG 和刑事执法机构忽视。EncroChat 就是这样一个平台。EncroChat 系统利用 Android 手机上的软件，允许用户通过唯一标识符或“句柄”直接与其他 EncroChat 用户进行加密通信。据欧洲刑警组织称，到“2020 年初，EncroChat 是最大的加密数字通信提供商之一，有很高比例的用户可能参与了犯罪活动。” （https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/dismantling-of-encrypted-network-sends-shockwaves-through-organised-crime-groups-across-europe，2022 年 5 月 22 日访问） .