Refusal to Give the Govt Passwords to Personal Mobile Criminalized in Hong Kong
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March 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
juliusceasar
Soon USA will follow. Using arguments like child safety, terrorists and not supporting Israel.
vsgherzi
Absolutely ridiculous law. I pray to God the US does not follow. That being said there is some strange law trickery where passwords and pins are safe but biomentrics aren't. We should just standardize it in the US.
chopin
Isn't that law in the UK as well? China takes the west as role model...