Overview
- A confidential note circulated on November 7 by the judicial police advises placing seized Google Pixel phones in Faraday pouches, avoiding any manipulation, and calling specialist teams.
- Investigators report at least one Pixel reset itself during forensic access in a major narcotics case, leaving a Paris judge without the phone’s contents.
- Spanish authorities alerted European counterparts months earlier about traffickers adopting GrapheneOS, prompting France to revise operational protocols.
- GrapheneOS, supported on Google Pixel models, can trigger a rapid factory reset with a single code, complicating data extraction for law enforcement.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nunez is pressing for heightened action against dealers as the issue draws political attention ahead of a planned presidential visit to Marseille.