[pchelpers] News:UK coppers empowered to demand your encryption keys

All you data is now belong to the plod
By Nick Farrell:  Tuesday, 02 October 2007, 4:37 PM  


FROM today it is a crime to refuse to decrypt data for coppers
investigating a crime.

Under part three, Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers
Act (RIPA) if Inspector Knacker of the Yard knocks on your door and
wants to have a snuffle on your hard drive and finds a blob of encrypted
code he can make you decode it.

More here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/02/uk-demands-encryption-keys

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