Posts tagged: bulk powers

Bulk Powers Review – Report (August 2016)

The report of my Bulk Powers Review, which I delivered to the Prime Minister on 7 August, was published to Parliament (in unaltered form, and without redactions or confidential annex) at 11 am today.

Web and print versions of the report are on the gov.uk website, and a PDF copy of the report is here: Bulk Powers Review – final report.  It begins with a 1-page Executive Summary.   The document speaks for itself, and I will not be doing any media around the launch.

I would emphasise the following points: Read more…

Bulk Powers Review announced

Scope of the Review

As widely reported, I have been asked to follow up my 2015 report A Question of Trust (AQOT) by conducting a review into the operational case for the four  bulk collection powers provided for in Parts 6 and 7 of the Investigatory Powers Bill for the use of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ (“the Agencies”).   Those powers relate to bulk interception, bulk acquisition, bulk equipment interference and bulk personal datasets, and are summarised in an Operational Case laid before Parliament on 1 March alongside the Bill. Read more…