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Cracking the cartels: global police face legal backlash over tactics

Deciphering encryption is said to have upended a vast drug network, but some say the method should worry us all

Law enforcement sources have described it as an embarrassment of riches, a treasure trove that led to raids across Europe and in Dubai this week that were said to have brought down a super-cartel controlling a third of the European cocaine trade.

“It was as if we were sitting at the table with the criminals,” the executive director of Europol, Catherine De Bolle, said in a recent interview.

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Originally posted in the guardian.