Verint to install Mexican wiretapping system
Agencia Federal de Investigacions agents will be able to listen in on telephone calls and intercept e-mail
Un nuevo contraco para Melville, Nueva York-radicada Verint Technology. In other words, the company — recently in the news for its $950 million purchase of business intelligence software company Witness Systems — has won a $3 million U.S. State Department contract to install a multi-faceted communications interception system for Mexico’s Agencia Federal de Investigacions (AFI). The system will enable AFI agents to monitor cellular, land, and VoIP communications over any Mexican network (as well as e-mail, chat messages, and file transfers) and is intended to help AFI fight drug smugglers and terrorists. Although details are scanty, Government Security News notes that the system will be able to save 25,000 hours of communications, “locate in real time targets on a cartographic plan,” and “is likely to be based on its STAR-GATE product which consists of a full range of circuit-switched and packet data lawful intercept solutions.” It is also expected to create a database of captured voices for use in speech analytics.
