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Worth noting that with RIPA (2000, activated in 2007) UK has enforced key disclosure. It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason (including random data).

I would say the UK has worse privacy than any other country on earth. I'm really hoping for plausible deniability to become more common to help protect against the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...

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More countries will follow after they ratify Russia's "United Nations Convention against Cybercrime" which has key disclosure explicitly stated in the text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_agai...

> It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason [...].

So it's also illegal to not know the password?

I've forgotten my own debit card PIN or phone unlock code on a couple occasions.

> (including random data)

Encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data. The only hint is the presence of metadata (GPG armor, bootloader password prompt, etc).

This law is catch-all BS designed to persecute people for no other reason.

The UK has worse privacy than ANY other country on Earth? Really?

No other country has willingly turned itself into a total panopticon, no. Perhaps others would like to - but they don't have the resources.

You can't walk a fucking meter on the streets without being recorded by the nanny state.

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