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Government Wants Your View On Encryption Keys
News Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) will, as it stands, give police the authority to force organisations and individuals to disclose encryption keys. The Home Office has today issued a public consultation on the...
[June 8, 2006, 16:10]
Police Ask For More Internet Powers
News While the police admitted that the time it takes to break some encryption standards has slowed investigations, moves to stop people hiding encryption keys have already been included in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
[July 26, 2005, 8:55]
New Surveillance Bill Comes Under Fire
News The government Thursday published the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill, branded "impossible" by Internet campaigners for its potential human rights conflicts. At the bill's publication he commented: "In my view the provisions of the...
[February 10, 2000, 16:27]
Jane Wakefield - ISPs Of The World Unite!
News It goes by the name of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill and it wants to watch you. So Part III of the e-communications bill, far from being dead and buried, is transformed and ready to rise phoenix-like from the ashes to live in...
[November 19, 1999, 17:07]
RIP Act Gives Police Power To Decrypt Data
News On Monday, Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) came into effect. The police have been given powers to demand that businesses' data is decrypted. Given the choice, security professionals will not keep their encryption...
[October 3, 2007, 16:14]
Government To Force Handover Of Encryption Keys
News The powers are contained within Part 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). Part 3 of RIPA gives the police powers to order the disclosure of encryption keys, or force suspects to decrypt encrypted data.
[May 18, 2006, 12:10]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
News Earlier this summer, the Government announced that it plans to activate Part III of the Regulations of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, which will give the police the power, in some circumstances, to demand an encryption key from a suspect.
[August 15, 2006, 11:05]
Ex-cracker Slams UK Cybercrime Law
News Herbless -- who shot to fame after defacing government and corporate sites Web sites with political messages -- says that the government's oft-criticised Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) will be completely ineffectual for catching...
[September 29, 2000, 11:10]
A Year Ago: Big Brother Plans Pushed Through Parliament
News In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, to carry forward updates to the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts...
[November 17, 2000, 6:00]
Straw Blames 'naive' Libertarians For Weak Encryption Laws
News The Home Office is still to introduce Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which grants law enforcement officers the power to demand decryption keys. We needed to take powers so that we could decrypt commercial encrypted...
[October 2, 2001, 17:40]
Big Brother Plans Pushed Through Parliament
News In a surprise move, the government announced in the Queen's speech that it will create a new bill, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, to carry forward updates to the widely-criticised Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) and parts...
[November 17, 1999, 15:28]
ZDNet UK News Interviews E-Minister Patricia Hewitt
News While the e-communications bill has been tidied up and is now pretty acceptable to most people, the worries over police access to decryption keys hasn't gone away -- it has simply been shifted to the Home Office, under the guise of the RIP...
[February 18, 2000, 8:50]
Encryption Key Legal Challenge?
Blog The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was changed last autumn to allow police to force people to hand over passwords or keys to encrypted data. The power of the police to force people to hand over encryption keys may be possible to...
[January 25, 2008, 17:08]
Anger Over Encryption Key Seizure Threat
News Investigatory Powers Act, which gives law enforcement officers the authority to order the disclosure of encryption keys, or force suspects to decrypt encrypted data. Readers have reacted angrily to the news that UK police may soon have the power to...
[May 19, 2006, 17:25]
UK Government Rejects Key-escrow Resurrection
News Privacy experts had speculated that the British government would follow the lead of the US Congress, and review its stance on encryption as contained in Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
[September 20, 2001, 12:55]
Why You Should Care About The RIP Act
News The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, to give it its full name, gives the police and the security services the right to intercept our communications data. But could the powers also be used against businesses?
[August 15, 2006, 15:50]
Jack Straw Tipped For Top Cybersnoop Award
News One source claims that Straw is expected to receive a lifetime achievement award for instigating the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, which gives law enforcers widespread powers to eavesdrop on Internet users.
[November 30, 2000, 9:02]
Can You Expect Human Rights Online?
News The British government's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, which increases official powers to monitor Internet citizens, is likely to produce an online big brother state, say critics.
[October 5, 2000, 15:09]
UK Government Scoops 'Internet Villain' Nominations
News The Home Office has come under massive criticism over the past years for several laws that have been introduced under Labour, most notably its draconian Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). This Act, introduced under the auspices of Jack...
[January 17, 2002, 16:58]
Election 2001: Tory Manifesto Embraces Freedom Of The Net
News The Conservative party is proposing a laissez-faire approach towards regulating the Internet space, in contradiction with Labour's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which gives police and other authorities the power to...
[May 22, 2001, 12:46]
