DRSD positions itself as French defence big data technology hub

French military appropriations bill serves up mostly good news for French intelligence services 

France's five-year military appropriations bill, presented by the government on 5 April, contains some very positive developments for the intelligence community, including a budget at an all-time high. But some demands, revealed by Intelligence Online, have fallen on deaf ears.

Under Philippe Chose's lead, more staff set to switch from DGSE to DGSI 

The increase in pay for DGSI cyber staff is luring the cream of the DGSE's technical department. Building the domestic intelligence service's interception capacities is the end goal.

• IRAN/SYRIA - IRGC mobilises new militia against US interests in Syria

• CHINA - Retired military, state personnel hired to prevent iPhone production jam

• FINLAND - Border guards camp in the east
  

• SWEDEN - Bigger budget for interception agency FRA
  

• FRANCE - Senators move to make ANSSI more aggressive

• UNITED KINGDOM - Ben Wallace and the Defence Committee cross swords over parliamentary control of UK Special Forces.

• FRANCE - DGSI to have permanent access to criminal records file.

• UNITED KINGDOM - The Joint Intelligence Organisation creates an OSINT "insights hub".
  

• HUNGARY - Budapest scans TurkStream for sabotage risks.

• FRANCE - Is DGSE now keeping an eye on ex-Air Force staff abroad following Intelligence Online's revelations?

• FRANCE - DGSI's new recruitment cell.
  

• RUSSIA - A new deputy for Zolotov.

• ISRAEL/ALBANIA - Tel Aviv pledges cyber security boost to Tirana.
  

• FRANCE/RUSSIA - Moscow loses case in Paris court.

French parliament mulls over government's capacity for strategic anticipation 

A parliamentary report by French MP Jean-Charles Larsonneur published late last month raises the need for heightened cooperation on strategic anticipation at an inter-ministerial level, and not only within the intelligence services.

Data privacy watchdog reins in spy agencies over IP counterintelligence databases 

The CNIL was consulted during the planning of a system designed to protect France's scientific and technical know-how from prying eyes. The watchdog had several reservations, not all of which were followed by French authorities.