1) "WHEREAS in actual practice all or most of a prospective's application is posted on Wittenberg under a thread name that names the applicant, and"
But, none of the sensitive data is posted. Email and phone numbers don't get posted in those threads, even if the applicant answers 'yes' to the PhoneOK? and EmailOK? questions. (Answering yes to those questions will have that data made available through the Chancery database, but not posted on Witt).
2) "WHEREAS some applicant information is arguably sensitive, and further include data that is irrelevant to the immigration process such as age, employment status, marital status, and"
First, the form does not contain a question on marital status.
Second, the only time employment is mentioned is in the box saying "Tell us a little about yourself, what's important to you, your ambitions, your job, your hobbies"... This box also features a guidance note that says "There is a lot to do as a citizen of the Kingdom of Talossa. Knowing some of your interests will help the current citizens to suggest to you some of the active Talossan groups and projects that that you may wish to join."
Are you seriously suggesting that immigration applications should contain near to no information about the applicant?Third, age is 100% relevant to the application process. We need to know if a person is of legal age to immigrate/vote/etc.
Further, they must be cautioned not to submit personal information irrelevant to their application
What exactly do you mean here? Again, is this tied to the thing about "tell us about yourself"? I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am, but are you actually saying that applications should be considered where we know absolutely nothing about a person (all the way from basic interests and hobbies all the way up to including whether their name is actually real)? Plus, I don't buy that anything filled into that box counts as "data" in the context of E.11. Those statutes were written to protect a person's contact information. Those clauses are about making sure your phone number and email don't end up floating about the internet, not about limiting us from asking you what your hobbies are.
advised of their rights to privacy under El-Lexhátx E.11
This is already done, and has been the case for quite some time.
The immigration application form contains the following phrases in its guidance notes:
- "Your mailing address (except for the city) will be kept confidential"
- "As with your mailing address, unless you request otherwise, your e-mail address will be kept confidential, for government use only"
- "Facebook and GoogleTalk ... This information is optional, however, and, like your other contact information, will not be published without your permission"
That said, it's not law that this needs to be included on the form, so there's nothing stopping a Minister (or even just a site admin) from removing those notes. I don't mind having it codified to ensure that this info becomes fixed.
Don't get me wrong. I sympathize with the thrust here. I wrote a lot of the data privacy laws back when we literally didn't have any. I agree, that stuff is important, but what it seems like your arguing for here isn't about data protection, but more towards banning data collection altogether.
I could get behind a law adding a notice to the form alerting prospectives that parts of an application will be posted on a forum. That's fair. I can support codifying the guidance notes in relation to LEX.E.11. We already do it, so that's fine. That bit in the middle about the "caution" (along with some of those WHEREAS statements) is nonsense though.
