RIPA s.50(3) ?

[Peter Fairbrother]

Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> Draft CoP quote
> "3.2 The specific provisions are:
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> =80 power to require disclosure of the means to access protected electronic
> information (section 50(3)(c);"
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> I don't quite get it. Has something been amended and I missed it?
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> RIPA s.50(3): "Where, in a case in which a disclosure requirement in resp=
ect
> of any protected information is imposed on any person by a section 49
> notice-=20
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> (a) that person is not in possession of the information,
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> or [...]
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> the effect of imposing that disclosure requirement on that person is
> that he shall be required, in accordance with the notice imposing the
> requirement, to make a disclosure of any key to the protected information
> that is in his possession at a relevant time."
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> Police seize computer, demand decryptions. Computer owner does not have
> possession of the protected information - the Police have seized his hard
> drive - so he must give up all the keys he has instead of just giving
> decryptions?=20
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> And of course the Police can't give him a copy of the protected informati=
on,
> as it might contain illegal material - so all keys must be given in every
> case where a computer is seized?
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Next question: Are the extra requirements pertaining to a notice requiring
keys bypassed?