On December 30, 2016, the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 came into force. The Act sets out how investigatory powers may interfere with privacy and "abolishes and restricts various general powers to obtain communications data and restricts the circumstances in which equipment interference, and certain requests about the interception of communications, can take place."

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