RIPA Part III

[Nicholas Bohm]

Ian G Batten wrote:
[snip]

> Yes, in the sense that with a warrant, the police could seize all the 
> materials in a darkroom.  RIPA is saying that with a warrant, the 
> police can demand decrypted forms of information on your computer.   I'm
> not a lawyer, but I'd be astounded if the police wouldn't be  permitted
> to develop unprocessed film found whilst executing a search.

I'm sure they could.  But if they thought the owner was very clever, and
the film might be rendered illegible by conventional processes, and
require some secret process to render it legible, they would find (at
least pre-RIP) that they had no power to insist on disclosure of the
secret process.

Nicholas
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