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=== Lauri Love === In October 2013, British–Finnish activist [[Lauri Love]] was arrested by the [[National Crime Agency]] (NCA) on charges of [[Hacker (computer security)|hacking]] into a US department or agency computer and one count of conspiring to do the same.<ref>{{cite web |last=Halliday|first=Josh|title=Briton Lauri Love faces hacking charges in US|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/us-briton-hacking-charges-nasa-lauri-love|access-date=13 May 2016|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=29 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26376865|title=Briton Lauri Love faces new US hacking charges|date=27 February 2014|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=13 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hacker Charged with Breaching Multiple Government Computers and Stealing Thousands of Employee and Financial Records|url=https://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2014/hacker-charged-with-breaching-multiple-government-computers-and-stealing-thousands-of-employee-and-financial-records|website=fbi.gov|publisher=[[U.S. Department of Justice]]|access-date=15 May 2016|location=[[Alexandria, VA]]|date=24 July 2014}}</ref> The government confiscated all of his electronics and demanded he provide them with the necessary keys to decrypt the devices. Love refused. On 10 May 2016 a District Judge ([[Magistrates' court (England and Wales)|Magistrate's Court]]) rejected a request by the NCA that Love be forced to turn over his encryption keys or passwords to TrueCrypt files on an SD card and hard drives that were among the confiscated property.<ref>{{cite web | last =Masnick | first =Mike | title =Judge Rejects Attempt To Force Lauri Love To Decrypt His Computers, Despite Never Charging Him With A Crime | website=[[Techdirt]] | publisher=[[Floor64]] | date =10 May 2016 | url =https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160510/08042734397/judge-rejects-attempt-to-force-lauri-love-to-decrypt-his-computers-despite-never-charging-him-with-crime.shtml | access-date = 13 May 2016}}</ref>
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