Why Do You Think The Operation Trojan Shield Went Too Far?

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Assignment 2: Operation Trojan Shield Operation Trojan Shield was one of the largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations that led to hundreds of arrests across Europe. The operation was led by the FBI and its foreign allies, including the Australian Federal Police and Europol, with a mission to target global organized crime, money laundering and drug trafficking. A Google Pixel phone with an encrypted messaging app, ANOM was distributed among over 300 criminal groups to track their criminal activities. These groups were able to send and receive encrypted messages to each other without the knowledge that authorities were secretly monitoring their communications. Over 800 people have been arrested because of the sting operation, …show more content…

Did the investigative agencies act under the color of any international laws or compacts, or did they "go off the reservation?" Operation Trojan Shield's success can be attributed to the cooperative efforts of several international law enforcement agencies, which allowed for the exchange of intelligence and cross-border action coordination. The FBI worked with a (yet-to-be-named) third nation to host the ANOM servers and redirect the messages back to the U.S. under a Mutual Assistance Legal Treaty. Because the U.S. has tighter legal requirements to intercept domestic communications than other nations, this was done to prevent inadvertently intercepting U.S.-based ANOM transmissions (N. Davis, 2021). With Treaties on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (MLATs), prosecutors and law enforcement officials can receive testimony, information, and testimony abroad in a form admissible in the courts of the Requesting State (Office of International Affairs Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 2022). The FBI and several law enforcement agencies around the world were able to lawfully execute Operation Trojan Shield despite raising ethical …show more content…

Prior to Operation Rubicon, in the 1960s, there was a surveillance system called ECHELON that was used to monitor the Soviet Union's military and its allies. ECHELON was a partnership between the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand also known as five eyes. Although the operation was designed to capture high frequency radio and cable traffic from the USSR, it also spied on neutral countries. Israel, France, Angola, Ecuador, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Libya, and several more nations are among them (Goldsten, 2024). 4. What is the difference between a.. What, if any, are the positive or negative impacts of this case on subsequent cyber-crime investigations? Operation Trojan Shield had positive as well as negative impacts on subsequent cybercrime investigations. This investigation highlights the need for international collaboration in the fight against transnational organized crime (TOC), since several agencies from various nations collaborated to ensure the success of this sting

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