Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner - July 2016
intrusion results as the material is stopped from entering the interception agency or is
immediately discovered by system administrators and deleted.
Incorrect communications address intercepted
6.99 24% of the errors were caused as a result of the incorrect identifier being
intercepted. The majority of these were human errors. In some cases there was an
inadvertent transposition of the identifier by the interception agency when applying
for the warrant or by the CSP when effecting the interception. In some instances the
interception agency applied for the warrant in good faith on information received from
a third party, but the information turned out to be incorrect. In the majority of cases the
staff conducting the interception detected these errors promptly and the interception
was immediately suspended and then cancelled.
6.100 The interception agencies and CSPs provided IOCCO with full reports of the errors,
the necessary investigations were carried out to ensure that the measures put in place
to prevent recurrence were sufficiently robust, and any erroneously acquired material or
data that was not of intelligence interest was destroyed.
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