One week for comments on the revised RIPA Part III draft Code of Practice
You have one week (i.e. by Thursday 22nd February 2007) to send any further comments to the Home Office, regarding last summer's public consultation on a draft Code of Practice for Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which deals with the seizure of encryption keys and encrypted information etc., which the Home Office now seem to be in the process of actually bringing into force, after the legislation has been sitting dormant on the statute book, for over 6 years:
2007-02-14 RIPA Part III Post Consultation version2 (.pdf 230Kb)
The biggest change seems to be to make the National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC), into a Single Point of Contact to act as the filter and guardian of any RIPA Part III requests - a sensible idea.
See Revised version of the draft Code of Practice for RIPA Part III - Investigation of Protected Electronic Information for contact details.