Tyranny of the government: UK Government to force handover of encryption keys

[MODU]

We need to take our USA glasses off for a moment and put our UK glasses on.  If their government passed this law, and it set a decent time delay before being enacted, it has had more than enough time to be challenged.  If the companies are not obsessing over this, then they must have already made other arrangements to protect their proprietary data.  And for individuals, there usually isn't much that they store electronically which is that sensitive.  If our UK friends don't have an issue with this, then it's a non-issue.

[MODU]

If their government passed this law, and it set a decent time delay before being enacted, it has had more than enough time to be challenged. 

What do you mean by 'challenged'?

Going to court.

[MODU]

IIRC, the British courts don't have the jurisdiction to strike down laws. There is no equivalent to Marbury v Madison.

That's why we have Brit friends here to clarify such things.