IPCO Annual Report 2017
Contents
Letter to the Prime Minister
5
1.
Introduction by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner Lord Justice Fulford
6
2.
IPA Implementation and the Establishment of IPCO
8
3.
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS)
13
4.
Surveillance
23
5.
Property Interference (including equipment interference)
32
6.
Investigation of Protected Information
38
7.
Interception
40
8.
Targeted Communications Data
49
9.
Bulk Communications Data
61
10.
Bulk Personal Datasets
69
11.
Intelligence Services Act 1994 – Section 7 Authorisations
75
12.
Consolidated Guidance
79
13.
Prisons
84
14.
Errors and Breaches
90
15.
Engagement with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal and other bodies
106
16.
IPCO and predecessors’ budgets
107
17.
Annex A: Communications Data acquisition by public authority
109
18.
Annex B : Serious Error Investigations
114
19.
Glossary for Public Authority Categories
128
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