NOTE: Policies are quite different to the various Pirate Parties, and more directly addressing the concerns of regular folk.
Being not left or right, in Australia the Privacy Party could (I reckon) get into the Senate, with some basic advertising. People are used to looking for boxes to check to opt out of shit, and this is a privacy box they can select as well.
NO TRACKING OF PRIVATE VEHICLES
We are close to getting road user charges instead of petrol taxes, because of electric vehicles. This can be done without monitoring where you go – NZ has just introduced a voucher system.
Also, less easy to achieve, would be a nationalised EV industry that has no tracking etc from the manufacturer. The platform could be exported. It need not be fancy.
NO TRACKING OF MONEY
Machines where you can buy or replenish $100 debit cards, that can be used anonymously just like any other card. Effectively a big cash account owned by the government (or a trusted 3rd party) that anyone can buy $100 from. You pay a $1 fee for the card (actual cost might be as low as $0.50).
STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Too many hacks are occurring where customer details are stolen. Often that data is serious, like passport details, and the storage of it was not related to any ongoing needs. If such data must be stored, then it needs to be stored offline, or air-gapped.
SAFE SOCIAL REGISTRATIONS
It is easily achievable to have anonymous social media use and for the government to know who the bad users are. Simply have many layers of security and deconstructed data, even held offline. Only accessible via a court order for criminal cases.
NO SPAM PHONE CALLS
It has gone on too long, it is annoying, and people get ripped off. Finally fix the phone system so pests can be charged and removed.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT PRIVACY
Regardless of whether you have an account or not, your use of the public transport system should not be available to law enforcement without a court order.
DECONSTRUCT GOVERNMENT ID SYSTEMS
One system for everything is efficient but also highly disliked and close to authoritarianism.
Instead we should have
- a low risk ID for things like gyms and pubs that just verify what you are telling them is accurate
- a health ID not tied to anything else
- a banking ID for all things financial and taxes
- a citizen ID, for passports, courts and voting, car registration and driving licenses.
All assigned at birth, or at implementation, none ever connected to the others, no cross-database checking. However, courts can access any of them via name and DOB.