UK Investigatory Powers Act 2016 - where do we stand in 2022?

In 2016 the UK Government passed the Investigatory Powers Act. This enabled not only the security services, but even your local council, to access you ISP logs. They did not even require independent authorisation.

Since then there has been a legal challenge by liberty and the act in its original form broke EU law.

It is now my understanding that to use the powers in the act can only be used where there is suspicion of a serious crime being …

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