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Court of Appeal orders men to disclose encryption keys

Court of Appeal orders men to disclose encryption keys

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Two men have been told that they cannot rely on their right to silence to refuse to give British police a computer password. The men had claimed that forcing them to hand over the key to encrypted data on their computers would be forcing them to incriminate themselves.  Defendants have a right to silence and to refuse to divulge information which would act as evidence against them. The Court of Appeal has said, though, that an encryption password is not in itself...



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