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Section 7.4, Clause 21 of the Legal Code requires that no player's "name, IP address, physical address or location, phone number, place of employment or education, appearance, social media accounts[,] health status, both mental and physical; financial status; personal tragedies; changes in personal status such as marriage, divorce, pregnancy, birth, or death; and other similar information" be disclosed in an FoI request. (Similar requirements appear in Section 5.5, Clause 27 regarding Security Council disclosures.) I do not see the point in keeping these examples in law - which effectively rule out the nonconsensual disclosure of (virtually) all IRL information about all NS players more substantiative or less trivial than "What is the player behind %%NATIONNAME%%'s favourite type of pasta?", which the government is coincidentally unlikely to have on record - when a blanket ban on revealing such information in the course of fulfilling an FoI request or a Security Council disclosure would both be shorter and much more clear-cut.
My proposedEARTHWORM FoI Simplification Act slims down the FoI Act by nearly 40% compared to its current state (including by removing repeated superfluous references to "the Delegate and the designated officers of the executive"); makes similar changes to the redaction requirements in Section 5.5, Clause 27; and removes a loophole at the start of Section 7 where legislation pertaining to executive government can be passed but not incorporated into the Legal Code, to bring its wording in line with the first clauses of Sections 5 and 6. Of course, feedback is welcome.
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The FoI Simplification Act
My proposed
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The FoI Simplification Act
The FoI Simplification Act:
Section 5.5: Disclosure of Security Council Information
26. Private Security Council records that reach one year of age will be relocated to the appropriate Declassified Archive visible to residents.
27. Information eligible for declassification will be reviewed by the Vice Delegate and the Security Council. The review will redact any information that fits any of the below definitions:
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Chapter 7: Executive Government
1. Any Law regulating the executive government officials of The North Pacificmay must be listed in this chapter.
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Section 7.4: Freedom of Information Act
20. For the purposes of this section "the government" refers to the Delegate and the Executive Officers, including the departments which they oversee.:
21. For the purposes of this section, classified information is that which fits any of the below definitions:
22. 21. Notwithstanding any process for publication, any information which meets the criteria to be classified will not no personal or classified information may be released.
23. 22. A resident may at any time request that the responsible officers release any private government record, and the responsible officers must request and retrieve relevant information from the different departments of the government in response; save that such records must Private government records which reach one year of age will be relocated to the appropriate Declassified Archive visible to residents after one year.
24. At any time a resident may request the release of any private record from the Government through the Delegate and the designated officers of the Executive.
25. The Delegate and the designated officers of the Executive will retrieve information requested from the different departments of the government.
26. 23. Residents who do not receive this information for any reason not specifically designated in appropriate laws or regulations the information described in the above clause for any reason not stated in law may file a request for the information it to the court, where the Delegate and the designated officers of the Executive responsible officers may present evidence that addresses to address any claim that release of the information meets one or more of the acceptable criteria for classification said information is personal or classified.
27. 24. Information appropriately not disclosed will be accepted as personal or classified, as appropriate, by a majority vote of the Court sitting as a three-member panel.
26. Private Security Council records that reach one year of age will be relocated to the appropriate Declassified Archive visible to residents.
27. Information eligible for declassification will be reviewed by the Vice Delegate and the Security Council. The review will redact any information that fits any of the below definitions:
- Any real-life information about any NationStates player, whether or not currently playing NationStates, which that player has not explicitly consented to making public.
Real-life information about any NationStates player from which there is a risk of inferring that player's real-life identity and which has not willingly been disclosed to the public, including, but not limited to, an individual's name, IP address, physical address or location, phone number, place of employment or education, appearance, social media accounts, and other knowledge about a player, unless the player in question provides explicit consent for this information not to be considered private. Real-life information about any NationStates player from which there is a risk of inferring that player's real-life identity and which has not willingly been disclosed to the public, including, but not limited to, an individual's name, IP address, physical address or location, phone number, place of employment or education, appearance, social media accounts, and other knowledge about a player, unless the player in question provides explicit consent for this information not to be considered private.- Information that, upon being made public, would jeopardize any ongoing military or intelligence operations; or jeopardize the security of units and agents participating in them, or be harmful to the diplomatic interests, military interests, or security of The North Pacific.
- Information that, upon being made public, would jeopardize Security Council operations in response to threats and attempted coups.
- Comments made by previous members of the Security Council who are not able to consent to their comments being made public.
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Chapter 7: Executive Government
1. Any Law regulating the executive government officials of The North Pacific
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Section 7.4: Freedom of Information Act
20. For the purposes of this section
- "the government" refers to the Delegate and the Executive Officers, including the departments which they oversee,
- "the responsible officers" shall refer only to the Delegate and the designated officers of the executive,
- "personal information" is any real-life information about any NationStates player, whether or not currently playing NationStates, which that player has not explicitly consented to making public, and
- "classified information" is that which would, upon being made public, jeopardize any ongoing military or intelligence operations; jeopardize the security of units and agents participating in them; or harm the diplomatic, military, or security interests of The North Pacific.
Real life information about any NationStates player from which there is a risk of inferring that player's real life identity and which has not willingly been disclosed to the public, including, but not limited to, an individual's name, IP address, physical address or location, phone number, place of employment or education, appearance, social media accounts, and other knowledge about a player, unless the player in question provides explicit consent for this information not to be considered private.Real life information about any NationStates player for which there exists a reasonable real life expectation of privacy or discretion, including, but not limited to, health status, both mental and physical; financial status; personal tragedies; changes in personal status such as marriage, divorce, pregnancy, birth, or death; and other similar information, unless the player in question provides explicit consent for this information not to be considered private.Information that, upon being made public, would jeopardize any ongoing military or intelligence operations; or jeopardize the security of units and agents participating in them, or be harmful to the diplomatic interests, military interests, or security of The North Pacific.
25. The Delegate and the designated officers of the Executive will retrieve information requested from the different departments of the government.
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