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Bill: Buyer and investor protection
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Republic Independent 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: April 2048
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 | 05:59:21, May 03, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Republic Independent Party | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | The reason this is a good bill is because it does to related things. 1. it allows for punishment to anyone who hacks a security system. 2. it allows for this security software to be protected so others cannot infringe on peoples rights just like that. (meaning - it is needed for no one else to obtain the software to hack into peoples private info.) |
| Date | 06:00:10, May 03, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Republic Independent Party | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | It also serves to help out the identity card bill. |
| Date | 06:33:17, May 03, 2005 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | I'll back this bill. |
| Date | 10:13:41, May 03, 2005 CET | From | Social Democrat Party | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | Me too, although similar bills have been defeated. |
| Date | 18:01:16, May 03, 2005 CET | From | National Democratic Party | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | I will of course support this bill. |
| Date | 20:13:17, May 03, 2005 CET | From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party - FLF | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | So how does the patent proposal fit into all this? STOP PROPOSING BILLS THAT SAY ONE THING AND DO SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY. |
| Date | 20:18:32, May 03, 2005 CET | From | People's Progressive Party | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | Proposals being general statements its not easy to make them fit with a bill. Though the reasoning in this bill is relevent to the proposal. |
| Date | 00:38:28, May 04, 2005 CET | From | Benevolent Totalitarian Party - FLF | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | Bills should fit proposals, not the other way around. The proposals are what counts in game mechanics. If you can't find a proposal to fit your bill, don't include any proposal at all. |
| Date | 07:28:00, May 06, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Centre Party of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Buyer and investor protection |
| Message | I must side with the BTP on this one. The text of the bill and the proposal attached to it are too different for me to figure out what's actually being proposed. I would likely vote for a proposal to allow software patents, but I cannot vote for this one. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 71 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 43 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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