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Bill: Privacy Protection Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Wealth and Prosperity Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2443
Description[?]:
| Measures be put in place to protect the privacy of the citizens of the Second Imperial Republic of Hobrazia. The government shall no longer be able to violate the privacy of individuals without a specific court order. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Right to privacy.
Old value:: The government has the right to monitor information of individuals without letting them know.
Current: Individuals have a right to privacy, but the courts can force individuals to give information on certain matters if needed. (also known as Habeas Data).
Proposed: Individuals have a right to privacy, but the courts can force individuals to give information on certain matters if needed. (also known as Habeas Data).
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:56:28, August 02, 2007 CET | From |  We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | We disagree. This is a matter of national security and, as such, our current regulations only allow certain members of our security services to monitor information. It is much better to find out that someone is doing something, or preparing to do something, harmful before the event and act accordingly rather than wait for such a thing to occur and then be blamed for not acting. If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear. |
| Date | 18:25:59, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Citizen's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | We agree. Surveillance is often a powerful tool that is used against the common man who has done nothing wrong. We are not accusing anybody of actually using it, but we would like to deny that opportunity. With this, if there any people that any hypothetical future government of ours dislikes, they can't monitor them for no reason. |
| Date | 22:14:06, August 02, 2007 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | We would point out that monitoring a situation is preferable to allowing a major crime to be committed. Monitoring causes no harm to anybody, but if our colleagues feel that they are being unfairly monitored then we must find ourselves asking what they think they have to hide? |
| Date | 03:21:53, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Citizen's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | The problem here is accountability. The key to keeping society from growing corrupt and collapsing upon itself is to have good courts. But currently, the courts play no part in this, and they should. |
| Date | 12:13:10, August 03, 2007 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | Whilst we understand the point made by our honourable colleagues, we would like to point out that by the time a court order can be obtained that the person or persons who are being investigated are, by that time, informed of that investigation and are capable of taking precautions to hide their activities. The current legislation allows said investigation to go ahead without the knowledge of the person being investigated and so allows for much better and more reliable information to be obtained than would otherwise be available. The courts should deal with what they are good at, bringing people to a final judgement. The security services should continue to do what they are good at, that of investigating and bringing those believed to be guilty of crimes before those courts. Confusing that issue only increases risks to public safety. |
| Date | 04:54:38, August 05, 2007 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | We fully support this bill. The current legislation allows for too many potential abuses by the government and/or law enforcement agencies. |
| Date | 17:20:13, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | We cannot support this bill. History has for several decades shown that terroism flourish in their attempts to hit Hobrazia. We have had Deltarian spies and terrorist, marxist terrorists bombing party offices, other terrorists bombing industrial buildings etc. We need this to protect our citizens and to avoid such disastrous events in the future. |
| Date | 21:17:12, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Free Lunch Party | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | This bill is ridiculous. If there's anything history has shown us, is that the citizen cannot be trusted. Granting them privacy increases the chance of terrorism happening on our land ten-fold. |
| Date | 00:18:12, August 15, 2007 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Privacy Protection Act |
| Message | We need to make monitoring suspects easier not harder. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 220 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 180 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw |