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Bill: Consumer Protection
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Republic Independent 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: February 2046
Description[?]:
| Upon adoption of this bill it shall therefore be enacted. This requires business persons maintaining computerized data that includes personal information to provide notice of breaches of system security under certain circumstances; revises criminal penalties re offense of fraudulently using, or possessing with intent to fraudulently use, personal identification information; provides fines upwards of 20,000 dollars and minimum mandatory terms of imprisonment of 20 minimum mandatory years if the Office of Legal Affairs determines because of illicit criminal intent.the public shall be notified within 10 days, and within 20days the government will impose a fine of 50,000 dollars if not notified, and if the public is not notified after 120 days of the security breech, the fine will jump to 120,000 dollars. Then if the agency does not notify the public after that the company will be shut down for non-disclosure of a security breech. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:54:31, May 01, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Republic Independent Party | To | Debating the Consumer Protection |
| Message | This bill is wordy but is needed to be as it protects all aspects of consumers from agencies, buisnesses, and pesons from committing fraud. It furthur serves to keep buisnesses in check from dishonest gain. All in all it is a good bill. |
| Date | 14:22:15, May 02, 2005 CET | From | National Democratic Party | To | Debating the Consumer Protection |
| Message | This bill would provide security mesures for my Identity Card bill, so I vote yes. |
| Date | 16:29:22, May 02, 2005 CET | From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party - FLF | To | Debating the Consumer Protection |
| Message | Your description has nothing to do with your actual proposal. I urge everyone to vote against bills that say one thing and do something else entirely. |
| Date | 01:19:24, May 03, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Centre Party of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Consumer Protection |
| Message | I agree with the point raised by the Benevolent Totalitiarians, although the stated intent of the bill is not bad. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 27 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 32 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
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