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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Enforcement officers' powers and orders - Surveillance device warrants and declaratory orders - Retention and destruction of raw surveillance data, excerpts, and other information obtained

64: Disposal of raw surveillance data, excerpts, and information obtained

You could also call this:

"Getting rid of surveillance information that is no longer needed"

When a law enforcement agency gets raw surveillance data, they must get rid of it if they do not need to keep it. This includes any parts of the data they took out and any information they got from it. If they are not keeping it as per section 63 or as part of a court record, they must delete or erase it.

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Surveillance device warrants and declaratory orders: Retention and destruction of raw surveillance data, excerpts, and other information obtained

64Disposal of raw surveillance data, excerpts, and information obtained

  1. A law enforcement agency must ensure that any raw surveillance data, excerpts from raw surveillance data, and information obtained from it that is not itself raw surveillance data, and that is not retained in accordance with section 63 or as part of a court record, is deleted or erased.