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can't they just throw you into prison for refusing to unlock your phone? its what police do here to force you to decrypt/unlock stuff.

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>Criminal suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police under the US Constitution's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, according to a unanimous ruling issued today by Utah's state Supreme Court. The questions addressed in the ruling could eventually be taken up by the US Supreme Court, whether through review of this case or a similar one.

Nice, so your protected in the US via the constitution. Here in the UK its straight to jail for non-cooperation

Yep. The nice thing about extending things into the MPC domain is that if the keys are sharded, you can actually arbitrage laws to your advantage by having necessary password-guarded keys in regions that may be compelled to handing over the encrypted data, but is completely useless.