Surveillance
Commons · Question 30755 · Tabled 11 Feb 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Tom Gordon
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure there is independent scrutiny of Technical Capability Notices; and if she will introduce new (a) judicial and (b) parliamentary oversight.
Answer
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 24 Feb 2025
The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 allows the Secretary of State to place obligations on telecommunications operators or postal operators through a Technical Capability Notice. A Technical Capability Notice itself does not require an operator to disclose a...