Bureau of Observance and Oversight
The Illuminatia Bureau of Observance and Oversight (BOO) is the primary agency of the government that maintains authority to engage in investigation and surveillance of the civilian population. The BOO is the only bureau of government that is given independent permission to place individuals within the general public under scrutiny and examination without prior expressed consent of the individual or individuals whose otherwise private information may be subjected to exposure.
The Bureau of Observance and Oversight is a close analogue to the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the mid to late Earthly kingdom of America or the National Crime Agency or the of the United Kingdom of the late modern Earthly civilization, except the BOO is required to limit itself to humane and compassionate reasonable methods of inquiry and must utilize only the least invasive means necessary to reach stated end goals. The BOO is able to engage in activities such as conducting investigations, making inquiries, requesting mandatory information, performing compulsory interviews, and acquiring records without the persons who are subject of these inquiries giving permission for their information to be acquired. While many people in Illuminatian will voluntarily offer information over which they maintain exclusive control to the BOO out of a collective cooperative feeling of civic duty, the BOO most often is asked to navigate a designated system of approvals that are technically required to be pursued before requiring individuals to comply with an investigation and the BOO will demonstrate documentation of the successful navigation of this system upon making requests or demands of individuals.
While a sovereign presumption of privacy is presumed as a default on which Illuminatian government's system of human rights and responsibilities is built, democratic processes demanded that there be some organ of government capable of investigating and surveilling people. While housed within the Illuminatian Ultrabureau of Control (UBC), the BOO was granted its latitude under joint overview by structures with elements from all four governmental ultrabureaus.
The BOO conducts its investigations in cooperation with and often at the request of other agencies tasked with maintaining civil order and assessing penalties and placing punishments for various transgressions, such as the Bureau of Punishment and Castigation (BPC) or the Department of Karma Adjustment (DKA). These agencies operate under ultrabureaus other than the Ultrabureau of Control, affording those agencies and likewise the BOO full real and perceived capacity to make independent decisions regarding the requested investigations. Bureaus and departments under primarily the Ultrabureau of the Executive (UBE) and the Ultrabureau of the Judiciary (UBJ) will contribute to the initiation of the majority of BOO investigations, however it is possible for the deliberative bodies within the Ultrabureau of the Legislative (UBL) to demand legislative investigations for certain lawmaking initiatives.
The right to privacy is given specifically to people themselves as individuals, and not to corporations, organizations, or positions held by individuals. Corporations are generally placed under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Observation and Oversight, as the BOO is concerned primarily with individuals. Non-human entities such as corporations and organizations instead are subject to oversight by governmental entities dedicated to supervision of corporate entities, such as the Bureau of Commerce and Trade (BCT) and its subordinate offices which is by far the largest regulator of corporations. Other regulatory agencies, such as the Bureau of Education and Enlightenment (BEE), Bureau of Lucidian Technologies (BLT), Bureau of Natural Resources (BNR), or the Department of Labour Relations (DLR), among others, perform observance and oversight roles over various specific market segments and economic sectors. Corporations and their agents consent to these levels of oversight intrinsically by virtue of choosing to exist.