ANNEX 2: DEFINED TERMS
Bill, HL Paper 79 HC 479 (December 2012)).
17.
Liberty IPT Case (Liberty and others v The Secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs and others, Case Nos. IPT/13/77/CH; 13/92/CH; 13/194/C and
13/204/CH, [2015] UKIPTrib 13_77-H).
18.
Liberty ECtHR Application (10 Human Rights Organisations v United Kingdom, an
application to the ECtHR filed on 10 April 2015).
19.
PI IPT Case (Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
Affairs and GCHQ and others, Case No. IPT/14/85/CH).
20.
Retention Code (Retention of Communications Data Code of Practice, March 2015).
21.
The RUSI Review (Independent Surveillance Review of the Royal United Services
Institute).
22.
Service providers (used to refer to: (1) companies which offer communications
services (Communications Service Providers properly so called), such as BT and
Vodafone, (2) companies providing internet access (commonly referred to as Internet
Service Providers), such as AOL, Virgin Media and Sky (collectively, technical readers
will know these two categories as the four lower levels of the OSI 7-layer model), and
(3) companies which operate “over the top” of an internet connection (commonly called
OTT providers or Applications Services Providers), such as Facebook and Twitter).
23.
The Snowden Documents (documents stolen from the US National Security Agency
by the contractor Edward Snowden, and published since 2013, purporting to describe
various surveillance capabilities and activities).
24.
SURVEILLE Report (SURVEILLE, Paper Assessing Surveillance in the Context of
Preventing a Terrorist Act, (May 2015)).
25.
Venice Commission Report 5 (European Commission for Democracy Through Law
(Venice Commission), Update of the 2007 report on the democratic oversight of the
security services and report on the democratic oversight of signals intelligence
agencies, Study No 719/2013 (April 2015)).
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