"Police officers and employees misusing access to police database now account for over half of all cybercrime prosecutions in the UK. The harms this can cause are considerable. Yet police continue to call for encryption to be weakened to allow for greater access to communication data." - Alice Hutchings, Director, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, Cambridge University. (3pp PDF: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ah793/papers/2025police.pdf)
On encryption backdoors:
Emergent Harms in the Security Group
at the University of Cambridge have put out of a researcher paper around how over half of all cybercrime court cases in the UK are prosecuting UK police officers for abusing systems access.
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