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Bill: Right to Privacy Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Aldegar Liberty Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: September 2133
Description[?]:
| Article 12 of the recently passed Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." However, current Aldegarian law gives the government the power of Habeas Data, in complete contradiction of the right to privacy that this treaty espouses and violating the security every Aldegarian should feel from an oppressive 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 | 12:59:26, October 29, 2005 CET | From | Novy Smer Party | To | Debating the Right to Privacy Act |
| Message | The state has to put the interests of the many before the interests of the few. This move would simply allow criminals to get away with crimes because it would be harder to bring a succesful prosecution. |
| Date | 14:48:55, October 29, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Right to Privacy Act |
| Message | His Grace doesn't mind the rights of peasants being violated but strongly resents the police sniffing around his mansions all the time during their silly 'investigations'. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
| Date | 19:49:46, October 29, 2005 CET | From | Aldegar Liberty Party | To | Debating the Right to Privacy Act |
| Message | The state has to do no such thing, the intent of a government is to protect the rights of its citizenry, all of its citizenry, not to deprive minority rights as the behest of the majority. Would you find it right to support slavery if a majority of the population backed a pro-slavery political party? Never is it acceptable to let the majority oppress the minority, for the simple fact that they are a majority. I believe this action also ties strongly into a free democratic state, especially regarding the issue of the media, whose job it is to watch the government and report to the citizenry. In that case jounalistic integrity is a must and they must be able to keep their sources confidential to serve properly as watchdog. I would think all would support them in this regard. That is, unless the parties currently in power have something to hide from the populace. |
| Date | 21:25:58, October 29, 2005 CET | From | Sanctaphrax Party | To | Debating the Right to Privacy Act |
| Message | We must vote no on this, too often information is vital in a case, and to not have it could prove to be highly dangerous. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 101 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 195 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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