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Cider9986 • yesterday at 5:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I believe it's CBP that does this, not TSA. Therefore Americans don't have to worry about it during domestic flights.

> Despite all the nonsense that's posted about UK on the internet

How is it nonsense? I'm not debating the warrant thing, but it's very reasonable to assume the UK has terrible protections for these sorts of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#:~:text=Uni...

https://eylenburg.github.io/countries.htm


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gambiting • yesterday at 5:44 PM

I mean in a broad sense if you read any news about the UK it might looks like a dystopian surveillance state where you get arrested for criticising the king(I kid you not - I've had multiple American coworkers ask me if this is true).

And yes, UK has some awful laws around this. Yes it has put people in jail just for planning a protest before. Yes you can go to jail for not disclosing your passwords. But what you read on the internet is almost laughably out of proportion - no, you won't get arrested for posting a meme about the king.

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