The UK Investigatory Powers Act: A Model for Europe

| Sir David Omand GCB
Sir David Omand GCB
Former Director of GCHQ (the UK Sigint Agency)

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The Author is Sir David Omand GCB

Sir David Omand GCB is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and at PSIA Sciences Po in Paris where he teaches a course he has designed on digital intelligence. His posts in government service included UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office after 9/11, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, Director of GCHQ, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Policy in the MOD and Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for... Read More

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