Airport police demanded activist’s passwords. He refused. Now faces prison in UK(theintercept.com)
theintercept.com
Airport police demanded activist’s passwords. He refused. Now faces prison in UK
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/23/police-schedule-7-uk-rabbani-gchq-passwords/
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>...the data is considered to have been “legally volunteered” under the Terrorism Act... the person searched “will not be directly told their phone is downloaded.”
Well isn't that a choice bit of doublespeak.
Well isn't that a choice bit of doublespeak.
What happens if I ask my friend (in my origin country) to change my password and only reveal the password to me if I'm not under investigation?
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A dark trend in a loss of civil liberties -- combined with the all-recording record of electronic devices, this is likely to be an explosively bad combination for those dedicated to human freedom :(
Yup sounds like I need to avoid the UK too!