You have no privacy, get over it or get out.
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Uncategorized on
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 was meant to be legislation to help fight organised crime, not to mention terrorism, by at least in part giving the police and other law enforcement types the right to decrypt your files. When I say in part, I refer to RIPA Part III, which sounds like a bad movie and actually plays like one as well.
New revisions to RIPA Part III are set to come into effect on the 1st October following Parliamentary approval. These changes to the code of practise were designed to fight off the well deserved criticism the original powers presented by way of the invasion of our privacy both personally and corporately. Indeed, some in the financial services sector have had very real fears concerning potential conflicts with data privacy and compliance laws not to mention the security of that sensitive financial data in the hands of PC Plod and Secret Squirrel.
While this new revision has, indeed, restricted the authority of law enforcement to access encrypted material there are still huge questions remaining as to if it has gone far enough to prevent those aforementioned financial folk from upping and moving head office, lock, stock and both data barrels to countries with less disregard for their operating practise. Even the additional security measures for handling key materials and the decrypted data, including the creation of the National Technical Assistance Centre for supporting companies looking to create bespoke decryption facilities remain shrouded in the cloak of spin.
Or how about those revisions concerning restrictions on access to encryption keys without good cause? Always a cracker, excuse the pun, that one
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