Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner - July 2016

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The iCLIC conference at Southampton University: Enrolling Internet
Intermediaries in the Law Enforcement Process Challenges & Opportunities;
The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) 20th Anniversary Conference
- “The Future Communications Landscape”;
JUSTICE and King’s College London round table “A surveillance Framework for
a Digital Age: Authorisation, Oversight and the Judiciary”.

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We also attended a number of other relevant events through the year including
those run by the Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum (Pictfor),
the Parliament & Internet Conference and the Cityforum Cyber Security Masterclass &
Round Table with the National Security Agency.
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Assistance to the reviews. We provided assistance to the three independent
reviews in 2015 – the Privacy and Security Inquiry by the ISC, David Anderson QC’s
Investigatory Powers Review and the Independent Surveillance Review by RUSI. We met
with David Anderson QC to discuss our written evidence9 and gave oral evidence to the
ISC and RUSI, sharing our experiences, concerns, observations and findings.
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Parliamentary committees. We were pleased to be invited to give oral evidence
to the IP Bill Joint Committee of Parliament in December 2015. We provided written
evidence to the Committee which highlighted, among other things, a number of concerns
and inadequacies with the clauses in the IP Bill and made suggestions as to how the
oversight arrangements might be strengthened.10 We have already provided updates to
that evidence and will continue to do so.
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Assistance to the Home Office. We met regularly with the Home Office policy
team and the communications capability directorate to discuss the various legislative
consultations, policy matters and projects being undertaken. During these meetings we
provided independent advice on how to strengthen the safeguards, improve compliance
and increase transparency.
3.10 National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Data Communications Group (DCG)
tradecraft events. We attended a number of learning events for Single Points of Contact
(SPoCs), Senior Investigating Officers (SIOs), Designated Persons (DPs), investigating
officers and analysts. This included a workshop on protecting journalistic sources and
a distance learning event on the independence of DPs. We also ran workshops at the
ICDDF conference on errors, frequent recommendations resulting from our inspections
and the legislative landscape.

9 http://www.iocco-uk.info/docs/2014-12-5(2)%20IOCCO%20Evidence%20for%20the%20
Investigatory%20Powers%20Review.pdf
10 http://www.iocco-uk.info/docs/IOCCO%20Evidence%20for%20the%20IP%20Bill%20Joint%20Committee.
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