14.
EXPLANATIONS
INTRODUCTION
14.1.
14.2.
The recommendations in Chapter 15 can be read on their own, but this Chapter
provides some of my background thinking. It does not gloss every individual
recommendation, but aims to explain, by going through the principal
recommendations in numerical order:
(a)
how they relate to earlier parts of this Report,
(b)
why they were made, and
(c)
why they take the form that they do.
The most detailed commentary in this Chapter relates to my recommendations on:
(a)
Definitions of content and communications data (Recommendation 12,
14.11-14.12 below);
(b)
Compulsory data retention (Recommendation 14, 14.14-14.22 below);
(c)
2012 Communications Data Bill (Recommendations 15-18, 14.23-14.38
below);
(d)
Bulk collection and bulk warrants (Recommendations 19 and 40-49, 14.3914.45 and 14.72-14.77 below);
(e)
Specific interception warrants (Recommendations 26-38, 14.60-14.63 and
14.68-14.70 below);
(f)
Judicial authorisation of warrants (Recommendations 22, 30 and 47, 14.4714.57 and 14.64-14.67 below);
(g)
Collection of communications data (Recommendations 50-71, 14.78-14.86
below);
(h)
Extraterritorial effect (Recommendations 24-25, 14.58-14.59 below);
(i)
Use of intercepted material and data (Recommendations 72-81, 14.87-14.93
below);
(j)
The
Independent
Surveillance
and
Intelligence
(Recommendations 82-112, 14.94-14.100 below); and
(k)
The IPT (Recommendations 113-117, 14.101-14.108 below).
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