Seven Joint Defense Team lawyers on EncroChat, SkyECC and ANOM: why mutual trust cannot replace judicial review of cross-border digital evidence in Europe.

Investigations in the Czech Republic, followed by analyses from Duncan Campbell and Bill Goodwin, indicate that the EncroChat devices were accessed through a publicly known Android vulnerability and the open source tool Frida. This raises the question of what, if anything, was ever covered by French military state secrecy.

(Judgment 7B_1429/2025 of 5 August 2026) In its interim decision of 15 August 2025, the Zurich Court of Appeal ruled that the SkyECC data in the underlying drug-trafficking proceedings was absolutely inadmissible. The court ordered the data to be removed from the case file, holding that its use breached two distinct principles: the decryption process infringed Switzerland's territorial sovereignty, and, independently, the underlying covert surveillance measure had not been ba