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  Investigatory Powers Bill - Clause 78 - Powers to Require Retention of Information on People's Internet Use
  
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  @ MP voted aye against the mass retention of information on people's internet usage.
  @ MP voted no for the mass retention of information on people's internet usage.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to enable a Secretary of State to require the mass retention of information on people's internet use.
  
  MPs were considering the Investigatory Powers Bill[1]. 
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 3, page 62, line 22, leave out âtherefore includes, in particularâ and insert âdoes not includeâ.
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have affected Clause 78[2] of the Bill. The text the rejected amendment sought to change is at the end of subclause (9) which defines "relevant communications data" for the purposes of Part 4 of the Bill which deals with powers for a Secretary of State to require a telecommunications operator to retain relevant communications data.
  
  The amendment would have excluded internet connection records from the information a Secretary of State could require be retained. 
  
  Clause 54(6)[3] of the Bill defined an internet connection record as:
  
  :communications data whichâ
  
  :(a) may be used to identify, or assist in identifying, a telecommunications service to which a communication is transmitted by means of a telecommunication system for the purpose of obtaining access to, or running, a computer file or computer program, and
  :(b) comprises data generated or processed by a telecommunications operator in the process of supplying the telecommunications service to the sender of the communication (whether or not a person). 
  
  Subclause 54(4)(d) indicates such internet connection records can identify which internet service is being used, and when and how it is being used.
  
  Clause 223(10) of the Bill[4] defines a telecommunications operator (to whom a retention order could apply) as :
  
  :a person whoâ
  :(a) offers or provides a telecommunications service to persons in the United Kingdom, or
  :(b) controls or provides a telecommunication system which is (wholly or partly)â 
  :(i) in the United Kingdom, or
  :(ii) controlled from the United Kingdom. 
  
  Once retained provisions in other parts of the Bill could be applied by public bodies to obtain and examine the material. 
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/investigatorypowers.html Parliament's webpage on the Investigatory Powers Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0002/cbill_2016-20170002_en_8.htm#pt4-pb1-l1g78 Clause 78 of the Investigatory Powers Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0002/cbill_2016-20170002_en_6.htm#pt3-pb1-l1g54 Clause 54 of the Investigatory Powers Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [4] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0002/cbill_2016-20170002_en_19.htm#pt9-ch2-pb2-l1g223 Clause 223 of the Investigatory Powers Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
  
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