A dead duck? (Was RIP s22 notices SI)

[Andrew Marlow]

ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
>I see today's Daily Telegraph has gone to town on the sneaky secondary
>legislation to be put before the Commons tomorrow. 
[snip]
>For the Lords, Lords Strathclyde is reported as firmly declaring that the
>Lords will stop this nonsense and that if the govt wished to persist with
>it, they will be forced to bring it back to Parliament next year,
>re-framed
>as primary legislation.
>
>Altogether very heartening. The left and right barrels of the serious
>press
>have squarely discharged their loads into this lame duck and, should it
>persist in spinning onwards though mortally wounded, the House of Lords
>stands ready to give it the coup de grace.  I think there is room for
>hope.
[snip]
Indeed. Excellent news. Hopefully it is through articles like this that
the public will become aware that privacy is something to be valued. All
too often the public just respond with "I have nothing to hide therefore I
have nothing to fear". 

-Andrew M.