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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A [[Republic Law#Magistrates, Lay Judges, and the Non-adversarial System|magistrate]]-signed warrant is required to infringe upon privacy, be it to search a person or home as part of ordinary criminal proceedings, or up to acoustically surveilling a citizen’s home or remotely accessing any devices therein, should a [[Biesellite_Security_and_Law|security agency]] have reason to suspect a threat to national security or life. There have been concerns throughout the Republic’s small history that the right to privacy is merely a formality, as these security agencies have been liberal in their surveillance of anyone suspected to be anti-corporate, especially with the [[Biesellite_Security_and_Law#Biesel_Security_Services_Bureau|Biesel Security Services Bureau]] having its close ties with [[NanoTrasen Corporation]], and with most household devices having been manufactured by NanoTrasen and capable of remote access. Meanwhile, the right to privacy is strongly enforced for higher level megacorporate employees or public officials, where attempts to expose corruption have resulted in a journalist being met with criminal prosecution for privacy violations.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A [[Republic Law#Magistrates, Lay Judges, and the Non-adversarial System|magistrate]]-signed warrant is required to infringe upon privacy, be it to search a person or home as part of ordinary criminal proceedings, or up to acoustically surveilling a citizen’s home or remotely accessing any devices therein, should a [[Biesellite_Security_and_Law|security agency]] have reason to suspect a threat to national security or life. There have been concerns throughout the Republic’s small history that the right to privacy is merely a formality, as these security agencies have been liberal in their surveillance of anyone suspected to be anti-corporate, especially with the [[Biesellite_Security_and_Law#Biesel_Security_Services_Bureau|Biesel Security Services Bureau]] having its close ties with [[NanoTrasen Corporation]], and with most household devices having been manufactured by NanoTrasen and capable of remote access. Meanwhile, the right to privacy is strongly enforced for higher level megacorporate employees or public officials, where attempts to expose corruption have resulted in a journalist being met with criminal prosecution for privacy violations.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Notable_Humans</del>#President_Åke_Torvald|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">President </del>Torvald]]’s election in 2466, this seems to resolving, with the [[Biesellite_Security_and_Law#Biesel_Security_Services_Bureau|Biesel Security Services Bureau]] generally being held more accountable when it comes to the surveilling of Republic citizens, with household devices being more rigorously protected against backdoor access and direct surveillance measures, and with some lower-stake breaches of privacy in the name of uncovering corruption deemed valid. Despite this, nothing have been done about the [[Biesellite_Security_and_Law#Biesel_Intelligence_Service|Biesel Intelligence Service]]’s surveillance of citizens (which is additionally against their mandate), and corruption at a federal level continues to be suppressed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">President </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Notable_Republic_Figures</ins>#President_Åke_Torvald|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ake </ins>Torvald]]’s election in 2466, this seems to resolving, with the [[Biesellite_Security_and_Law#Biesel_Security_Services_Bureau|Biesel Security Services Bureau]] generally being held more accountable when it comes to the surveilling of Republic citizens, with household devices being more rigorously protected against backdoor access and direct surveillance measures, and with some lower-stake breaches of privacy in the name of uncovering corruption deemed valid. Despite this, nothing have been done about the [[Biesellite_Security_and_Law#Biesel_Intelligence_Service|Biesel Intelligence Service]]’s surveillance of citizens (which is additionally against their mandate), and corruption at a federal level continues to be suppressed.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One large issue in Privacy Law is that of [[IPC]] tagging. Positronic rights activists have long campaigned that the tagging of IPCs — particularly free IPC citizens — is a violation of privacy laws, with information about a positronic’s life appropriated to a federal database. Once again, as a matter largely involving the [[megacorporations]], the Republic’s judiciary have avoided and delayed issues that have arisen out of this for years and years, with many disputes either settled out of court or drag out ever move to financially encumber the claimant.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One large issue in Privacy Law is that of [[IPC]] tagging. Positronic rights activists have long campaigned that the tagging of IPCs — particularly free IPC citizens — is a violation of privacy laws, with information about a positronic’s life appropriated to a federal database. Once again, as a matter largely involving the [[megacorporations]], the Republic’s judiciary have avoided and delayed issues that have arisen out of this for years and years, with many disputes either settled out of court or drag out ever move to financially encumber the claimant.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Public prosecutors have significant leeway in whether to take a criminal proceeding to court, and the determination of ‘public good’ allows personal interpretation that the average prosecutor includes to mean ‘not angering the [[megacorporations]]’. As such, many criminal proceedings affecting senior megacorporate employees die here. C-suite level megacorporate employees are almost always immune from criminal proceedings, as the public prosecution office is incredibly unlikely to continue a criminal proceeding to court; for other senior megacorporate personnel (eg. regional directors, space vessel captains), the burden of evidence is higher, if the blame cannot be shifted to a [[Chain_of_Command#Heads_of_Staff|fall-person (of which there are always many)]]. Since the election of President Torvald though, this has appeared to begin to change, with cases levied against megacorporations and their employees notably surging as public prosecutors feel appropriately backed up by the state to pursue such — though it is nonetheless never safe to poke a bear.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Public prosecutors have significant leeway in whether to take a criminal proceeding to court, and the determination of ‘public good’ allows personal interpretation that the average prosecutor includes to mean ‘not angering the [[megacorporations]]’. As such, many criminal proceedings affecting senior megacorporate employees die here. C-suite level megacorporate employees are almost always immune from criminal proceedings, as the public prosecution office is incredibly unlikely to continue a criminal proceeding to court; for other senior megacorporate personnel (eg. regional directors, space vessel captains), the burden of evidence is higher, if the blame cannot be shifted to a [[Chain_of_Command#Heads_of_Staff|fall-person (of which there are always many)]]. Since the election of President <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Notable_Republic_Figures#President_Åke_Torvald|Åke </ins>Torvald<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>though, this has appeared to begin to change, with cases levied against megacorporations and their employees notably surging as public prosecutors feel appropriately backed up by the state to pursue such — though it is nonetheless never safe to poke a bear.</div></td></tr>
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