Agenda Watch (@agendawatch)

@KuptoKosmos Translated from French 🇪🇺 e-Evidence is officially in force as of August 18, 2026 Before: A French prosecutor who wanted your emails, your chats, or your IP logs from a server in Ireland or the Netherlands, for example... had to go through the classic mutual legal assistance process. That could take months, sometimes more than a year Now: They send an order directly to the provider (or to its legal representative in Europe)... ➡️ 10 days maximum to deliver everything ➡️ 8 hours in case of emergency Examples of affected providers: ➡️ Meta (WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) ➡️ Google (Gmail, Drive) ➡️ Microsoft (Outlook, OneDrive) ➡️ Apple (iCloud) ➡️ Cloudflare ➡️ Amazon AWS ➡️ OVH ➡️ All messaging services etc... Clarifications: ➡️ @telegram is clearly in scope. They operate massively in Europe and already have a legal representative in Belgium... A prosecutor can send them an e-Evidence order directly. They will have to provide what they have (registration data, phone number, IP of last connection, etc.) ➡️ @signalapp is technically also in scope. Since they offer the service in the EU, they must designate a legal representative... But Signal stores very little data thanks to end-to-end encryption. They can only deliver the little they actually hold (number linked to the account + a few limited metadata). Not the content of the messages Examples of data that can be requested: 👁️ Subscriber identity (name, address, phone number) 👁️ IP addresses and connection logs 👁️ Traffic data (who talked to whom, when, for how long) 👁️ Content of emails and messages (when the provider holds them) 👁️ Files stored in the cloud They say: "It's just for organized crime and terrorism" "There are safeguards" "No obligation to break encryption" In short... It's the shift from a slow and controlled system to a near-instantaneous system of cross-border access to private communications The machine is accelerating. #Privacy #Surveillance #UE