Law­ful Inter­cep­tion (LI) is obtain­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion data pur­suant to law­ful author­i­ty for the pur­pose of analy­ses or evi­dence. Such data gen­er­al­ly con­sist of sig­nal­ing or net­work man­age­ment infor­ma­tion or, in few­er instances, the con­tent of the com­mu­ni­ca­tions, some­times also referred to as Inter­cep­tion Relat­ed Infor­ma­tion (“IRI”).

The bases for LI is the inter­cep­tion of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and data streams by law enforce­ment agen­cies (LEAs), reg­u­la­to­ry or admin­is­tra­tive agen­cies, and intel­li­gence ser­vices, in accor­dance with the local law in dif­fer­ent coun­tries. Under many tele­com leg­is­la­tions oper­a­tors have the oblig­a­tion to ful­ly coop­er­ate with requests from LEAs and pro­vide IRI when request­ed, fol­low­ing the due process and receiv­ing prop­er autho­riza­tion from com­pe­tent author­i­ties.

Our firm has the knowl­edge of and expe­ri­ence with assess­ing the require­ments of the dif­fer­ent gov­ern­ment enti­ties, ver­i­fy­ing these with the tele­com leg­is­la­tion and advice on the imple­men­ta­tion of law­ful inter­cept. Fur­ther­more we assist with assem­bling RFP and coor­di­na­tion of the entire process.