A lawyer for the National Crime Agency (NCA) has told an appeal tribunal the breaching of the EncroChat encrypted phone network in the spring of 2020 was for law enforcement the equivalent of the “D-Day landings.”
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is hearing the last of a three-day appeal against the granting of a thematic Targeted Equipment Interference (TEI) warrant, which the NCA obtained on March 25, 2020, in order to access up to 9,000 EncroChat devices in the UK and investigate the owners of those devices.
