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The previous Home Affairs Committee in its report on 'A surveillance society, recommended amongst other things, that the Information Commissioner publish an annual report to Parliament on surveillance. The first such report from the Information Commissioner is appended to this report. The Information Commissioner states that despite a welcome strengthening of the data protection regime since 2006, technological and societal developments have proceeded and the risks to individual privacy remain real. Six main recommendations are put forward: increased adoption of a 'privacy by design' approach through greater use or privacy impact assessments and privacy enhancing technologies; inclusion of robust privacy safeguards as the default setting when offering new online services; a requirement for a privacy impact assessment to be presented during the parliamentary process where legislative measures have a particular impact on privacy; an opportunity for the Information Commissioner to provide a reasoned opinion to Parliament on measures that engage concern within his area of competence; increased post legislative scrutiny of legislation; and in certain appropriate circumstances inclusion of a sunset clause in legislation that is particularly privacy inclusive