Chapter 4 - Facilitators and relevant factors

4.2 Anonymisation tools - Law enforcement considerations

The use of Darknets poses additional challenges for law enforcement. However, users and services on these networks are not untraceable and can still be identified via technical investigation or traditional investigative techniques (target profiling).

Blocking access to TOR on a national level is already a reality in China but has also been proposed in the Russian Federation. It is unlikely however that such restrictive censorship measures would ever be implemented within the EU, but it is possible that some other countries with strict censorship may follow suit.