London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year
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Feed Name: The Register (Security)
The Register reveals that London's Metropolitan Police made over 700,000 communications-data requests in 2025, obtaining metadata from services including ProtonMail/ProtonVPN, Signal, LycaMobile, and ride/food delivery platforms; the report highlights a near 500% surge in requests to LycaMobile, concerns about targeting migrants and journalists, procurement for tools to analyze delivery and ride data, and disputes from providers about whether data could be supplied, raising questions about privacy, legal safeguards, and oversight.
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