Publisher's Synopsis
The scope of this publication extends well beyond the field of counter-terrorism. Public authorities intercept communications, and collect information about communications, for a host of other purposes including counter-espionage, counter-proliferation, missing persons investigations and the detection and prosecution of both internetenabled crime (fraud, cyber-attacks, child sexual exploitation) and crime in general. The purpose of this Report is: a. to inform the public and political debate on these matters, which at its worst can be polarised, intemperate and characterised by technical misunderstandings; and b. to set out proposals for reform, in the form of five governing principles (Minimise no-go areas; Limited powers; Rights compliance; Clarity; Unified approachand). and 124 specific recommendations.
