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Going 'Below the Waterline': The Paradoxical Regulation of Secret Surveillance in the UK


Bernard Keenan


London School of Economics - Law Department

March 2015

LSE Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 9

Abstract:     
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal recently found that government surveillance was unlawful, marking the first time that the secretive court has ever ruled against the UK’s Intelligence Services. Yet the Tribunal also held that the unlawful situation had been remedied by the Tribunal’s decision; a paradoxical and unprecedented result that says much about the difficulties of effectively regulating secret activity.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 4

Keywords: Investigatory Powers Tribunal, Investigatory Powers Act, surveillance, privacy


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Date posted: March 26, 2015  

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Keenan, Bernard, Going 'Below the Waterline': The Paradoxical Regulation of Secret Surveillance in the UK (March 2015). LSE Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 9. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2583806 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2583806

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Bernard Keenan (Contact Author)
London School of Economics - Law Department ( email )
London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
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