2011 Annual Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner
requests were for subscriber data under Section 21(4) (c). 15 of the 23 public authorities acquired
service use data under Section 21(4) (b) and these accounted for 8% of the requests. Only 11
of these public authorities acquired traffic data under Section 21(4) (a) and these accounted for
24% of the requests.
Figure 13 – Percentage of Communications Data Requests by Type
Combination
6%
Traffic Data
24%
Service use Data
8%
Subscriber Data
62%
Figure 14 illustrates that 79% of the ‘Other’ public authorities inspected achieved a good level of
compliance with the Act and Code of Practice and this represents a 15% increase on last year.
However this percentage should be treated with caution as the public authorities being inspected
are not the same every year. My inspectors were generally satisfied that communications data was
being acquired lawfully and for a correct statutory purpose. The applications were completed to
a good standard and my inspectors were satisfied that the DPs were discharging their statutory
duties responsibly.
Figure 14 – Comparison of ‘Other’ Public Authority Inspection Results, 2010 vs.
2011
2011
2010
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