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2012. Still very relevant though.

• Namrog84 10y ago
  I wonder what has come of this though?
  • bertiewhykovich 10y ago
    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.
  • DanBC 10y ago
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/08/christopher_wilson_students_refusal_to_give_up_crypto_keys_jail_sentence_ripa/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/08/christopher_wilson_s... https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spyblog/2014/01/15/first-ripa-s49-encrypted-usb-devices-conviction-involving-national-security---sy.html https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spybl... etc. Wikipedia has a few more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000#Prosecutions_under_RIPA 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.)
  • confounded 10y ago
    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_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000/Part_III#Cases https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investig...