Different nations, different mandates. One trusted third party.
VoIP and broadband erased the borders in your network. They didn't erase them on the regulatory side of lawful intercept and records production. Every nation writes its own law-enforcement-assistance mandates, and non-compliance is illegal everywhere. We extend the same trusted third party (TTP) discipline to providers operating abroad.
Operating in nearly thirty countries.
The full service offering, across borders.
For more than two decades we've run lawful-intercept and records-production services for U.S. providers through our principal-agent trusted third party model, and since 2014 we've extended the service to data retention abroad. The same disciplines now support providers wherever their networks reach.
Lawful Intercept (LI)
Real-time intercept service through technical interfaces with your network, implemented to each jurisdiction's standards when a lawful order arrives.
Data Retention (DR)
Government retention mandates define what you store, how long, and how it's secured. We operate the whole burden, storage rules, retention periods, formats, access and encryption.
Expanding abroad multiplies the confusion.
Which country's rules apply to which traffic? An American provider entering the EU meets an entirely new set of mandates, and a provider unsure of its obligations at home is flying blind abroad.
The one constant across every jurisdiction: non-compliance is against the law and carries serious financial penalties. Our team assists in determining your actual obligations, country by country, and stands up the compliance solution each one requires.
The right data in the wrong standard is useless.
Surveillance technical standards differ country to country. Deliver a target's traffic to an EU agency using the U.S. ATIS standard, where ETSI prevails, and the agency will reject the data and you are in non-compliance.
That's the type of failure our legal and engineering teams exist to prevent: we furnish an intercept solution matched to each country's legal and technical demands, and as networks migrate to virtual and cloud infrastructure, the solution migrates with them.
Foreign providers entering the U.S. get their own challenges.
A foreign-owned provider applying for an FCC license to serve the U.S. public will likely face a Team Telecom review, the inter-agency task force that vets whether new entrants can meet the needs of U.S. law enforcement and national security. At minimum that means a valid CALEA solution; often it also means naming a trusted third party on American soil prepared to receive court surveillance orders on the provider's behalf.
That named third party is precisely the role Subsentio has played for two decades, for the largest carriers and the smallest market entrants alike.
Operating abroad, answered.
Does Subsentio provide lawful intercept in Canada?
Yes. Lawful intercept in Canada runs under Canada's own statutes and standards, which compare with the United States' but are not identical; Subsentio validates and executes Canadian orders for its customers there as part of its international operations.
What about lawful intercept in Australia and in Europe?
Australia has its own interception and data-retention regime, similar to but distinct from the United Kingdom's; each EU member state enforces its own lawful-intercept statute, with delivery to the ETSI handover standards. Lawful intercept in Australia and lawful intercept in Europe are each engineered to the local statute and standard — a solution built for CALEA cannot simply be reused abroad.
What is cross-border, or multi-country, lawful intercept?
A provider whose network spans jurisdictions receives orders from more than one legal system, each with its own process and its own handover standard. Cross border lawful intercept — multi country lawful intercept, for a provider in several — means validating each order under the law of the country that issued it and delivering to that country's standard — ATIS for U.S. agencies, ETSI for most others. Subsentio operates that for providers in nearly thirty countries.
Is Subsentio a global lawful intercept provider?
Subsentio operates lawful intercept, records production and data retention for providers in nearly thirty countries, delivering to ATIS in the United States and to the ETSI standards abroad. It does not claim expertise in every country's telecom regulation; it operates the law-enforcement-assistance obligations providers carry where they operate.
What is the ETSI lawful intercept standard?
The family of handover specifications published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute that define how intercepted communications are delivered to a law-enforcement monitoring facility in Europe and much of the rest of the world. The ETSI LI standard is to an EU agency what the ATIS standards are to a U.S. one.
What is international records production?
The same discipline as U.S. records production — validate the instrument, produce to its limits, authenticate, keep the file — applied to production orders from foreign agencies and to the data-retention mandates many countries impose. The key difference: where a retention mandate applies, a provider must be able to produce a record within the retention period, whether or not it would have kept it otherwise.
Operating beyond the U.S.?
Tell us where your network reaches. We'll work with your legal resources to determine what each jurisdiction expects, and operate it for you.