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by DanBC
3352 days ago
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England has some weird bits of law. http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/protection-of-official-data... If you leak data that damages the capability of the armed forces to carry out their tasks the maximum sentence is 2 years. Compare that to: http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cp230_pr... > By way of contrast, sections 57 – 59 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, when commenced, will make it an offence punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment for a Crown servant to disclose without authorisation anything to do with the existence or implementation of particular warrants granted pursuant to the Investigatory Powers Act, including the content of intercepted material and related communications data. So, while it might be right that official secrets is made more restrictive, but with an increased max sentence, that is a bit worrying because other law tends to anchor to OSA sentences, and we don't want longer sentences all over other data privacy laws. |
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