GAK-killing amendments?

[Caspar Bowden]

> I think we have just seen why Straw wants GAK left in at all
> costs. His
> masters voice has announced that he wants a policemen to have
> access to
> any passing drunk's PIN number so as to extract a fine on the spot!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_812000/812935.stm

It's rather starting to irk me. I feel FIPR should at least be getting some
recognition out of this policy kleptomania. First we gave the Home Office
the idea of "black-boxes" last August, http://www.fipr.org/ioca/fipr.pdf,
then

"Have you ever lost or forgotten the PIN number of your bank card? Suppose
that the police had the power to demand it – how would you go about
convincing them that you really did not have it? Would it be fair to be
imprisoned if you could not prove that you did not have it?" (FIPR
editorial, Computer Telecommunications and Law Review, June 2000)

Reminds me of Tom Lehrer giving up satire when Kissinger got the Peace
Prize...