Fellow Members of the Open Parliament,
Since the pitiful covert incursion upon our Discord server by a disgruntled DSA citizen in September this year, which originally inspired me to write the first two sections in the bill before you, this draft has been in the works and eventually expanded in scope to fix several errors or ambiguities in existing offences along the way (three, to be exact) in this consolidated bill.
Accordingly, I submit the bill to the Open Parliament for scrutiny and debate as required by the Constitution of the SLU.
Preamble: "This Act Amendment establishes a new offence and expands the definition of perjury to address vulnerabilities raised by a recent incursion against our region in which the privacy and good faith of its Member States was violated by way of deception by foreign actors. This Act Amendment also makes minor technical or grammatical revisions to several existing serious offences, without altering them substantively or altering their offence classifications in any way."
1) The first section substantially expands criminal liability for perjury (an existing offence) when a State lies or misrepresents to a SLU government official acting in their official duties regarding any material fact concerning their identity (to discourage impersonation), in-game military and political affiliations, or their provenance (i.e. their NS region of origin if a foreigner, etc) to gain (or attempt to) access/admission to specified SLU websites, servers, or networks.
2) The second section establishes a novel offence for violation-of-trust situations when a State has already obtained access/admission to a SLU website or server. Normally espionage is committed against the governmental, military, or executive power, however, this offence now harshly punishes espionage against SLU Member States in their individual capacities as well in their capacities as Members of Parliament to protect freedom of debate and parliamentary privilege. To protect the former, the section protects non-governmental civilian conversations, containing sensitive things such as real names, physical/mental health matters, and other specified personally identifying information from exportation, disclosure, or abstraction by foreign actors or disguised covert States. To protect the latter, the section protects civilian discussions related to SLU elections, laws, and other parliamentary and internal political matters.
3) See the proposed before-and-after comparison of the existing offence the third section of this bill seeks to amend here (opens on diffchecker.com).
4) See the proposed before-and-after comparison of the existing offence the fourth section of this bill seeks to amend here (opens on diffchecker.com).
5) See the proposed before-and-after comparison of the existing offence the fifth section of this bill seeks to amend here (opens on diffchecker.com).
Respectfully yours,
Anaaxes
(This post was last modified: 01-26-2021, 02:30 AM by Courelli.)
Since the pitiful covert incursion upon our Discord server by a disgruntled DSA citizen in September this year, which originally inspired me to write the first two sections in the bill before you, this draft has been in the works and eventually expanded in scope to fix several errors or ambiguities in existing offences along the way (three, to be exact) in this consolidated bill.
Accordingly, I submit the bill to the Open Parliament for scrutiny and debate as required by the Constitution of the SLU.
Click here to read the full text of the bill for the proposed Amendment 4 to the Offences and Sentencing Act
(opens on the Library of Parliament)
(opens on the Library of Parliament)
Preamble: "This Act Amendment establishes a new offence and expands the definition of perjury to address vulnerabilities raised by a recent incursion against our region in which the privacy and good faith of its Member States was violated by way of deception by foreign actors. This Act Amendment also makes minor technical or grammatical revisions to several existing serious offences, without altering them substantively or altering their offence classifications in any way."
Unofficial summary of the provisions of the bill:
1) The first section substantially expands criminal liability for perjury (an existing offence) when a State lies or misrepresents to a SLU government official acting in their official duties regarding any material fact concerning their identity (to discourage impersonation), in-game military and political affiliations, or their provenance (i.e. their NS region of origin if a foreigner, etc) to gain (or attempt to) access/admission to specified SLU websites, servers, or networks.
2) The second section establishes a novel offence for violation-of-trust situations when a State has already obtained access/admission to a SLU website or server. Normally espionage is committed against the governmental, military, or executive power, however, this offence now harshly punishes espionage against SLU Member States in their individual capacities as well in their capacities as Members of Parliament to protect freedom of debate and parliamentary privilege. To protect the former, the section protects non-governmental civilian conversations, containing sensitive things such as real names, physical/mental health matters, and other specified personally identifying information from exportation, disclosure, or abstraction by foreign actors or disguised covert States. To protect the latter, the section protects civilian discussions related to SLU elections, laws, and other parliamentary and internal political matters.
3) See the proposed before-and-after comparison of the existing offence the third section of this bill seeks to amend here (opens on diffchecker.com).
4) See the proposed before-and-after comparison of the existing offence the fourth section of this bill seeks to amend here (opens on diffchecker.com).
5) See the proposed before-and-after comparison of the existing offence the fifth section of this bill seeks to amend here (opens on diffchecker.com).
Respectfully yours,
Anaaxes
