This section of the website compiles research into the policy surrounding the surveillance state, by Ian Brown, Josh Cowls, and Ben Zevenbergen of the Oxford Internet Institute. It is partially based on background from Brown’s FORES report, but mainly from the three major reviews published in this area in 2015, by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Royal United Services Institute, and Intelligence and Security Committee, as well as recent cases at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal and High Court.
The research is presented in the form of summaries of key issues, with links between related content. The entries have been sorted into three groups: actors, law (including statutes and case law) and powers. The full, linked list of pages currently in the database is below.
Actors:
Oversight bodies
Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation
Intelligence Services Commissioner
Interception of Communications Commissioner
Intelligence and Security Committee
Agencies
Others
Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Intelligence and Data Sharing
Law:
Statute law
European Convention on Human Rights
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
Intelligence Services Act 1994
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015
Key cases
Liberty and Others v GCHQ and Others (2014)
Davis and Others vs The Secretary of State for the Home Department
Powers:
Interception of telecommunications
Breaking into computer systems
Intrusive and targeted surveillance