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Re:In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, b... by Namrog84 on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:54PM (#12840831)
I wonder what has come of this though?
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Re:In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, b... by confounded on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:42AM (#12843664)
The process has a few stages. NTAC (GCHQ) approves the issue of a Section 49 Notice ("decrypt or jail"); a Section 49 Notice is issued; and it's then either complied with or not.

Eight Section 49 Notices had been issued up to April 2008. Since then the rate has increased steadily; 37 were issued in 2014/15 (latest year of data).

Eighty-eight were approved to be issued.

https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investig...

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Re:In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, b... by DanBC on Monday October 31, 2016 @05:42PM (#12841196)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/08/christopher_wilson_s...

https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spybl...

etc. Wikipedia has a few more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...

(Note that Wikipedia has some of it a bit wrong. WP suggests that councils started snooping on citizens after RIPA. In fact, councils were always doing this, and RIPA brought it into a regulatory regime and stopped some of the worst excesses.)

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Re:In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, b... by bertiewhykovich on Monday October 31, 2016 @05:04PM (#12840908)
Probably nothing. Groups like the Pirate Party work themselves into a fit over meaningless affronts to privacy because of some combination of a) a lack of real politics, and b) actually having something serious to hide.
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