Re:Police Claim Encryption Use Is Illegal
by Nimi on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:09PM
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So, if I'm getting this straight: if I'm an employer who's curious to know what's inside an encrypted partition on one of my contractors' laptops, I can simply call the police, say I suspect there's company data there, the police and prosecution don't need any more evidence to bring this to trial, and then the judge will likely order said contractor to decrypt the partition? Then if it's just his personal porn collection, everyone shrugs and life goes on?
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Re:Police Claim Encryption Use Is Illegal
by rayiner on Thursday October 03, 2013 @03:23PM
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You're throwing out all of the context. If you call the police out of the blue like that, they'll ignore you. If you call them with respect to an employee who was fired and "lost" certain property, that's enough to at least investigate.
I see. Thanks for the clarification.
I still find it troubling that there's no burden of proof to violating someone's privacy before the court (there also doesn't seem to be any guarantee that decrypting the partition before the court would be done behind closed doors). But I guess there are many privacy issues not currently well addressed by U.S. laws...