Airport police demanded activist’s passwords. He refused. Now faces prison in UK

Arbitrary detaining 50,000 people per year, no right to remain silent, arrest and imprisonment if you refuse an arbitrary search...

Yup sounds like I need to avoid the UK too!

>...the data is considered to have been “legally volunteered” under the Terrorism Act... the person searched “will not be directly told their phone is downloaded.”

Well isn't that a choice bit of doublespeak.

What happens if I ask my friend (in my origin country) to change my password and only reveal the password to me if I'm not under investigation?

A dark trend in a loss of civil liberties -- combined with the all-recording record of electronic devices, this is likely to be an explosively bad combination for those dedicated to human freedom :(