{"id":471,"date":"2009-08-11T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2009-08-27T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:43:10","slug":"so-much-for-the-right-to-not-self-incriminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/so-much-for-the-right-to-not-self-incriminate\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for the right to not self-incriminate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline really does tell the story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/08\/11\/ripa_iii_figures\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data<\/strong>: Up to five years in jail after landmark prosecutions<\/a>. You will provide the key, citizen . . . or you&#8217;ll do hard time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years.<\/p>\n<p>The government said today it does not know their fate.<\/p>\n<p>The power to force people to unscramble their data was granted to authorities in October 2007. Between 1 April, 2008 and 31 March this year the first two convictions were obtained.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure was made by Sir Christopher Rose, the government&#8217;s Chief Surveillance Commissioner, in his recent annual report.<\/p>\n<p>The former High Court judge did not provide details of the crimes being investigated in the case of the individuals &mash; who were not necessarily suspects &mdash; nor of the sentences they received.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline really does tell the story: Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data: Up to five years in jail after landmark prosecutions. You will provide the key, citizen . . . or you&#8217;ll do hard time: Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,10],"tags":[157,154,217],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","category-liberty","tag-encryption","tag-privacy","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}