▲ | rich_sasha 2 days ago | |
UK has the idea of contempt of court. Even as it stands, the court can demand you submit some evidence - say an encryption key for a document. And if you refuse, they can even imprison you until you surrender the key. Another principle is that when someone is destroying evidence, you can presume it contained incriminating evidence. I think you could make the punishment proportional to the presumed crime. | ||
▲ | Jigsy 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
And then what's stopping the police or governments jailing people for crimes _they_ think happened? Especially if they can claim they "presume the evidence was destroyed." |