New Zealand Justice Minister Amy Adams has announced a new proposed bill that will track prisoners in real-time, to prevent them from escaping prison under an assumed name, Stuff.co.nz reports. Some government officials deemed the proposed law, dubbed the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Bill, necessary after jailed murderer and pedophile Phillip John Smith fled the country on work release. "You tend to get ... a concern about potential privacy breaches, but my view is that public safety and law enforcement have to be the overriding criteria and if we have to amend the law to make that clear, then that's certainly something I'm prepared to advance,” Adams said.
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