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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]
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]
RIPA demands push up ISP costs
News This 'fleshes out' provisions under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ('RIPA') which give the Home Secretary power to order a provider of public telecoms services to maintain a "reasonable" level of intercept capacity to enable...
[July 9, 2002, 15:41]
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]
New powers put privacy laws to the test
News The powers are the latest expansion of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), passed last year, which will require ISPs to install so-called black boxes to monitor Internet traffic, and will give the police powers to demand that...
[June 12, 2002, 16:58]
Tories pledge to boost broadband and e-commerce
News Among its promises, the Conservative party pledges: to look closely at BT's domination of the telephone network, with plans to give rivals "fair and equal" access to its lines; to scrap the much-hated IR35 tax, which it describes as a stealth tax...
[April 17, 2001, 13:30]
Snooping laws caught in catch-22
News Ian Walden, head of IT law at Queen Mary College, giving evidence to an inquiry in data retention by the All-Party Parliamentary Internet Group, said the loophole stems from a conflict between two laws: the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act...
[December 13, 2002, 15:54]
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]
Correction: Make IT Simple's DeMailer
News The Commission says that if a retraction product retrieved emails from any point "after the server", then there could be issues under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, but accepts that DeMailer does not fall into this category.
[November 23, 2001, 14:27]
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]
Tories pledge to curb abuse of surveillance powers
News An incoming Conservative government would curb the abuse of powers granted under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, according to a Tory peer. Shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the...
[October 29, 2008, 17:29]
Car mag rebuked for 'perversion' email
News British car magazine MaxPower has received an official warning from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for sending out a Big Brother promotional email that accused recipients of breaching the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
[August 17, 2001, 12:59]
Email interception law faces more delays
News A key part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) that will force ISPs to store Internet traffic including Web addresses visited and emails is facing a major delay. According to the Home Office Web site, the government had hoped to...
[March 1, 2002, 14:48]
Parliament 'didn't understand RIP Act'
News Lord Phillips of Sudbury told a Parliamentary meeting in London on Wednesday that neither backbenchers nor government ministers fully grasped the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which was passed into law in 2000.
[November 6, 2003, 16:35]
Data surveillance complaints have zero success rate
News The Investigatory Powers Tribunal was created in October 2000 to safeguard citizens from abuses of the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which lets certain government authorities get access to private information about...
[November 5, 2003, 17:25]
RIPA surveillance may break human rights laws
News The powers, introduced by an upcoming provision of the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), passed two years ago, may violate human rights laws because of a loophole under which law enforcement agencies may access data that...
[July 31, 2002, 16:43]
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]
Jane Wakefield - ISPs of the world unite!
News 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 harmony with its big brother IOCA and all the other spying ideas the government can think up -- all...
[November 19, 1999, 17:07]
BT Phorm trial leak rekindles row
News As BT had not obtained permission from users, website owners or search companies to redirect data, Clayton argued BT had intercepted the data illegally under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
[June 6, 2008, 18:01]
2001: Protecting intellectual property
News Cyberliberty advocate Yaman Akdeniz notes that under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act there are laws for business practice legislations developed by the Department of Trade and Industry. The Act uses wide powers for employers to intercept...
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
