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> I was also asked for my password and if I had any encrypted data on my PC (which I didn't have at the time). Today you probably encrypted everything, right?
by welly2103 7y ago
> I was also asked for my password and if I had any encrypted data on my PC (which I didn't have at the time).
Today you probably encrypted everything, right? Would they force you to tell your password, or what was the intention of just asking for it?
- monkeynotes 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#Germany Laws in the UK are pretty Orwellian to say the least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
- iSnow 7y agoThis is Austria, not Germany, though the laws are probably very similar.
- shadowprofile77 7y agoOne of the comments above mentioned that police in the UK (and western Europe) tend to be more polite than the often aggressive police in the U.S. This is believable, so too is the notion that police and the justice apparatus in the US are also more punitive than their western European counterparts. With these things in mind, it's rather ironic that the U.S turns out to be the much better place for protecting ones digital privacy by refusing to disclose passwords. Since it's not even legally allowed in the US due to the Fifth Amendment... (border crossings still being extremely ambiguous places on this).