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Regulatory Investigative Powers bill

This law, part 3 is about encrypted data. Basically, if the law says they want the key to some encrypted data stored on your computer, you have to give it them.

I know its not in force, but Ive read it and dont think its as bad as what some claim. However, Im not legally minded at all, and would like to hear other peoples opinions. Link here:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#49

I know someone whom is claiming the following:

If you refuse to hand over the keys (for encrypted data) then it's 2 years inside, no questions asked. No trial, no mitigating plea, it's go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect £200.

If you don't have decryption keys (eg someone else uploaded encrypted data to your server) and are therefore unable to hand them over - this counts as a refusal to hand over the keys and it's 2 years inside, no questions asked.

If you've lost the keys (eg obsolete data of no further interest and the key got destroyed) and are therefore unable to hand them over - this counts as a refusal to hand over the keys and it's 2 years inside, no questions asked.



I think thats wrong, whats your take on it? Is it unfair? Do you get a trial or not?
 
Everybody has the right to a trial, so I don't think they'd realistically just lock you up and throw away the keys. However that rule does appear dangerously open to abuse, as with other aspects of RIPA.
 
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Big fat invasion of privacy!

Haven't you noticed - this government seems to see the idea of privacy as incredibly dangerous - and anyone who actually wants some privacy must be a terrorist..

Not long ago I heard someone say that we are sleep-walking into becoming a police state. I couldn't have agreed more - and for once my usual apathy regarding whatever the issue of the day is has disappeared when it comes to the assaults on our privacy that keep happening.

Note: if I don't post again for a while, it's because I've been taken to an interrogation centre in some Eastern European country
 
I recently travelled from continental Europe to Spain and was not asked for this information. Why was that?

The requirement to provide API data does not apply to flights departing from countries within the Schengen free travel area. The countries within the Schengen free travel area are: Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden.

Under European human rights isn't this discrimination of a EU partner so why are we in the EU we are an island and going from that quote different to the EU partners.
 
Did you know that from the 19th July 07, if you get on a plane from the UK to Spain, your passport details will be forwarded to the Spanish Authorities before the plane can leave, this only applies to the UK??..not other EU countries.

I'm too lazy to provide the details, perhaps the police can do it for me using their nationwide ANPR camera spy network -

Project Laser in the United Kingdom

In March 2005, plans were announced to set up a nationwide system of over 2,000 automatic number plate recognition cameras in the United Kingdom. Starting in 2006 Britain will become the first country in which every journey of every vehicle is monitored and recorded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition

:hrmph:
 
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Under European human rights isn't this discrimination of a EU partner so why are we in the EU we are an island and going from that quote different to the EU partners.

Yeh, but we've got a bit of a reputation for breeding fundamentalist nutters, and you could argue that Spain are just trying to protect their own citizens returning home from the UK. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. As I see it it's just another layer of security and I've got nothing to hide.
 
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