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Bill: Citizen Privacy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Protectorate 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: June 2097
Description[?]:
| A citizen should never be forced to turn records over to the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Right to privacy.
Old value:: 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).
Current: Individuals have a right to privacy, to keep records and information for themselves.
Proposed: Individuals have a right to privacy, to keep records and information for themselves.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:12:17, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Citizen Privacy |
| Message | While we are very congniscent of the need for privacy, there are some truly heinous crimes that digitial technology has enabled. Most worrying among these, at least for us at the LevP, is not terrorism but child pornography. If the courts cannot give the police a warrant to search the digital records of citizens when there is sufficient probable cause, then how can we prosecute pedophiles who collect large libraries of digital images of children being exploited? Given how easy it is for child pornography to fester in online communities, we cannot give absolute protection to digital information. |
| Date | 06:26:34, August 12, 2005 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Citizen Privacy |
| Message | Digital transmissions are covered by our internet laws, thus if a pedophile collects or distributes images the information can be gained during transit. |
| Date | 11:04:28, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Citizen Privacy |
| Message | Yes, but how can the police be empowered to collect evidence if our citizens can assert an absolute right to privacy? |
| Date | 06:44:14, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Citizen Privacy |
| Message | Evidence collection will occur as it always has, through digging up information prior to the arrest. What changes is only that the person cannot be forced to give this to the police. |
| Date | 09:17:24, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Citizen Privacy |
| Message | Again, how can we collect evidence if we cannot compel people to turn over data? This law will mean the police could no longer seize financial records, making the prosecution of embezzelement an impossibility. This law will mean that prosecution for child pornography is impossible unless the police happen to have some kind of 'data tap' on a person's internet connection while the data is sent. This law will mean that evidence of a criminal conspiracy of any kind kept on a computer will never see a court room, because the conspiritors will be able to assert an absolute right to keep that information private. This law will gut the ability of the police to prosecute many crimes, and create a digital safezone for criminal activity. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 58 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 39 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 3 |
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