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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 com
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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.
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