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French Bill Carries 5-Year Jail Sentence For Company Refusals To Decrypt Data For Police (dailydot.com)
Patrick O'Neill writes: Employees of companies in France that refuse to decrypt data for police can go to prison for five years under new legislation from conservative legislators, Agence France-Presse reports. The punishment for refusing to hand over access to encrypted data is a five year jail sentence and $380,000 fine. Telecom companies would face their own penalties, including up to two years in jail. M. Pierre Lellouche, a French Republican, singled out American encryption in particular. "They deliberately use the argument of public freedoms to make money knowing full well that the encryption used to drug traffickers, to serious [criminals] and especially to terrorists. It is unacceptable that the state loses any control over encryption and, in fact, be the subject of manipulation by U.S. multinationals."
If they want access to encrypted data, just give it to them. If they need it decrypted, that's their problem.
Jail em all and let God sort it out
Table-ized A.I.
Are you saying corporations are NOT people? Blasphemy!
- Mitt
Table-ized A.I.
March 3, 2015 (Reuters) - The French Assemblée Nationale today issued instructions to Juge D'Instruction Claude d'Monet, ordering that he determine the being or beings responsible for the existence of the mathematics of encryption.
d'Monet subsequently issued a Warrant and Order to Appear to God, declaring that failure to appear by the 15th of March would result in a summary declaration of contempt, an order for His arrest, and possible forfeiture of the universe.
Police have attempted to serve this warrant at the Notre-Dame de Paris several times, but without success.
#DeleteChrome
They'll hire someone to serve the time for them.