[Discussion] Criminal Code Act (September 2018)

[Amerion]

I have several thoughts but until quoting is fixed I'm struggling with getting them to show up properly. <_<

One quick one though, I think Espionage is too open. Under that definition, the Delegate releasing information from a private executive area to the Assembly would be espionage.

I suggest looking at TNP's language on espionage as a starting place on how to improve this clause:

"6. "Espionage" is defined as sharing information with a group or region when that act of sharing has not been legitimately sanctioned by the entity the information is gathered from, as limited by this section.
7. The information shared must not be accessible to a person who is not a member of the region or group it is gathered from except by cracking technical security measures.
8. The information must be gathered from The North Pacific or a foreign power the Regional Assembly has agreed to prohibit espionage against."

So basically, the people in charge of a particular section of the forum can sanction the release of information - that could be declassification, or reporting to the legislature, or providing evidence in a trial, or sharing important military intel with an ally, etc. And it doesn't include sharing publically visible information on the TNP forum with outsiders, since they could access that information simply by checking the site. But a minister sharing private legislative discussions with a non-citizen would qualify, because the minister doesn't have power in the legislature and the outsider would have to hack someone's account to access that same information. Plus, TNP doesn't criminalize spying on random regions (just some specific allies), whereas the language you have now could plausibly be broad enough to apply to any espionage anywhere.

Noted with thanks. I'll soon amend it.