The contents of messages from encrypted chat service EncroChat may be admissible as evidence in English criminal trials, the High Court in London, England has ruled.
A legal challenge to a warrant used by the National Crime Agency for gaining access to hacked data obtained by the French and Dutch authorities has failed, leaving it up to individual judges whether they allow the contents of hacked messages to be used in court or not.
The ruling, issued late last month, has profound implications for a number of criminal trials brought over evidence obtained from EncroChat messages. Prosecutors claim that EncroChat was used solely as a means for organised crime gangs to message each other securely and have used the contents of the messages to charge people with crimes involving drugs and gun-running among other things.
Questions were raised by an indicted criminal suspect, ..
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