(UK-specific) consultation about RIPA

[Adam Funk]

Consultation on the Investigation of Protected Electronic Information
under RIPA


The Home Office has issued a consultation on a revised draft statutory
code of practice on investigation of protected electronic data data,
which relates to the exercise and performance of the powers and duties
that will arise from the implementation of Part III of the Regulation
of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
established powers to impose a requirement upon a person to put
protected electronic information into an intelligible form or to
disclose a key which will enable the data to be put into an
intelligible form. The Government has kept under review the need to
implement the provisions in Part III. Over the last two to three
years, investigators have begun encountering encrypted and protected
data with increasing frequency. This, and the rapidly growing
availability of encryption products including the advent of encryption
products as integrated security features in standard operating
systems, has led the Government to judge that it is now timely to
implement the provisions of Part III.

Please ensure you read the consultation document which can be found at

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2006-ripa-part3/