Monday, June 12, 2006

Another Brick in the Wall?

Hot on the heels of a proposal to provide local government officials access to police data, the

Home Office has initiated a new consultation on the law enabling the police to insist that people disclose their encrypted data in an intelligible form or to disclose their keys to the data as Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
The consultation documents are available as a pdf download:
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2006-ripa-part3/