Internet users manage a plethora of passwords to protect email, files, and website registrations.
The court will convict if it believes you were lying about forgetting a password, or uncooperative in finding it. No evidence is needed of involvement in a substantive crime. The data protection act mandates data controllers to take adequate precautions including encryption, so they are in jeopardy either way. To crack down on the black economy, the government intends to amend the data protection act to allow access to individual bank accounts and to force private companies to release data on their employees.