Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under National Security Law

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Police in Hong Kong can now demand phone and computer passwords under amended national security law

Refusing to comply could lead to up to one year in jail and a hefty fine, while providing false or misleading information carries up to three years in prisonHong Kong police can now demand that people suspected of breaching the city’s national security law provide mobile phone or computer passwords in a further crackdown on dissent.The new amendments to the law also empower customs officers to seize items that are deemed to have “seditious inten…

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New Hong Kong rules force people to give up passwords in security cases

HONG KONG — People in Hong Kong will now face a year in jail if they refuse to give police their phone or computer passwords in investigations involving the city's strict national security law, the government said on Monday. The new rules apply to the implementation of Hong Kong's national security law, which was imposed by Beijing in 2020 after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in the financial hub. One of the amendments that ca…

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Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under national security law

Those who do not comply can be jailed for up to a year and fined up to HK$100,000 ($12,700; £9,600).