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However, it is possible that a company may refuse to comply with a notice requesting it to maintain a permanent interception capability.
It's likely that we'll get calls for a lawful interception capability in self-driving cars: the power for the police to send a signal to your car to force it to pull over.
That dynamic can create an incentive to let problems linger: Once a carrier's interception capability is restored -- even if it was fixed at taxpayer expense -- its service is compliant again with the 1994 law, so the issue is moot.
The impact assessment on a section on enforcement of the new powers says the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa) imposes penalties on companies that refuse to comply with interception warrants and sets out the circumstances in which they may be requested to maintain permanent interception capability.
But last night Dr Adrian Davis, the European director of ISC2, the infosecurity professionals body, said the bill's requirement on overseas companies to build a permanent interception capability into their system could put UK personal data a greater risk from cyber-criminals.
"Given the extent of filtering involved, it is evident that GCHQ's bulk interception capability does not constitute blanket surveillance or indiscriminate surveillance," the committee asserts.
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It also recommends that misuse of GCHQ's interception capabilities should become a criminal offence.
Anderson's support for bulk interception capabilities will come as a relief to GCHQ.
In the United States, phone and broadband networks are already required to have interception capabilities, under a 1994 law called the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act.
The agencies also made use of their mobile interception capabilities to collect location information in bulk, from Google and other mapping apps.
The federal police accidentally leaked information about their own interception capabilities by failing to redact – ironically – forms used to access metadata.
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