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Bill: Privacy Act 2211
Details
Submitted by[?]: Centre Démocratique
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: November 2213
Description[?]:
To maintain a certain level of privacy for all Jelbanians. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The confidentiality of letters and correspondence.
Old value:: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable, but the justice dept. can violate it in extreme situations.
Current: The confidentiality of letters is not inviolable.
Proposed: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 21:16:47, April 06, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Privacy Act 2211 |
Message | No, I like it how it is. If a single letter will put a criminal in jail, why not open it? There is due process of law; not everyone will have privacy violated. Anyway, most private letters nowadays are e-mail, not snail-mail. |
Date | 23:10:58, April 06, 2006 CET | From | Centrist Democratic Party | To | Debating the Privacy Act 2211 |
Message | We have to agree. As the law stands, the government respects individuals except in the most EXTREME circumstances. The government has a responsibility to guard her citizens against those that would do them harm, whether they be from external or internal threats. |
Date | 15:16:06, April 07, 2006 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Privacy Act 2211 |
Message | From what I understand this bill to mean is that NOW the government can violate your privacy when it deems necessary in extreme circumstances. What this bill will do is force the government to get a warrant (or whatever legal permission) to obtain these letters. |
Date | 21:16:16, April 07, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Privacy Act 2211 |
Message | No, would not a warrant be "an extreme situation?" That was the impression I had. I do not know what you are reading, but that but says letters are confidential, no matter what. I am for getting warrants, but that is not what the bill says. |
Date | 15:53:36, April 10, 2006 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Privacy Act 2211 |
Message | The law I am proposing here is the law of the land in 26 countries of Terra. Under the current law, the government can read your mail if it is a "extreme situation." The new law will make correspondence completely private. Under the new law, if the government wants to read your mail, they will have to go through the routine legal process to obtain it. The Citizens Party believes that privacy of Jelbanians needs to be protected. If mail and letters are needed for a particular investigation, let police and investigators obtain letters through the normal legal process (like other evidence.) |
Date | 20:01:34, April 10, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Privacy Act 2211 |
Message | The law means what it says and says what it means. This will ban warrants also. |
Date | 04:34:32, April 11, 2006 CET | From | Socialists Fury | To | Debating the Privacy Act 2211 |
Message | I like it the way it is.... perhaps a mad man out there sends a suspicious package (which could possibly be a bomb) and no one can open it because it will now be illegal to do so, even if it is an extreme situation??? |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes | Total Seats: 135 | ||||
no |
Total Seats: 366 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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