Part 8: Oversight arrangements Chapter 2: Other arrangements Section 246: Technology Advisory Panel
This section creates a panel which will provide advice to the IPC, the Secretary of State and the Scottish Ministers about the impact of changing technology on the exercise of investigatory powers and the availability and development of techniques to use such powers while minimising interference with privacy. The panel is required to provide an annual report to the IPC which must be copied to the Secretary of State and, where appropriate, the Scottish Ministers.