![]() This Report is set in the context of current developments in the threat picture and in technology (including AI), which are likely to require a wholesale replacement of the IPA for the 2030s. If enacted in the form I have recommended, they should give UKIC, law enforcement and the oversight body IPCO useful extra agility in important areas. The proposals that I have endorsed would leave the IPA’s central mechanisms intact, including the strong independent scrutiny that is its hallmark. ![]() I comment also on a number of other proposals aimed at clarifying certain definitions in the IPA and making its warrantry and oversight processes more resilient. The third proposal is to amend IPA s87 so as to ensure that technological changes notwithstanding, a mechanism continues to exist whereby UK telecommunications operators may be required, if the Secretary of State and a Judicial Commissioner agree, to retain the communications data of ‘inbound roamers’ with foreign SIM cards. I endorse that objective but consider that it could be better achieved by creating a fourth condition, which would be available only to UKIC and only for national security-related and serious crime purposes. The second proposal is to amend one of the three conditions in IPA s62 so as to facilitate the use of Internet Connection Records for target discovery. ![]() I endorse that proposal, on condition that datasets (or datasets of a given class) be placed in the low/no category only with the approval of an independent Judicial Commissioner. The first and most substantial proposal is to amend IPA Part 7 by creating a new, light touch regulatory regime for the retention and examination by the UK Intelligence Community (UKIC) of bulk personal datasets in respect of which individuals have a low or no expectation of privacy. The purpose of this independent Report is to consider some specific proposals for amending the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA), arrived at by the Home Office following its post-legislative review, so as to inform proposals for future legislation. Presented to the Prime Minister pursuant to terms of reference published on 9 February 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE INVESTIGATORY POWERS ACT 2016
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