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France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU

Posted by timothy on from the arrogance-of-power dept.

An anonymous reader writes "France has proposed the European Union study taxing companies for transferring personal data outside of the bloc ... The proposal is part of a series France has made ahead of an EU summit next month ... Both transfers of data inside companies, such as sending information on employees from a European subsidiary to a non-EU parent, and between companies are affected. Transfer of personal data often happens when companies outsource certain tasks such as customer sales and help lines to offshore call centres."

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  1. Enforcement by Hypotensive · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To enforce this you would need to inspect the contents of encrypted communications. On the same scale as the NSA inspects communications metadata.

    1. Re:Enforcement by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Insightful

      To enforce this you would need to inspect the contents of encrypted communications.

      Not necessarily. Instead, you could offer financial incentives for disgruntled employees to rat on the companies they work for.

    2. Re:Enforcement by NatasRevol · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Like paper & gunpowder & printing & i-dont-know the fucking fork?

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions

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    3. Re:Enforcement by Barsteward · · Score: 3

      i think its more targeted at the global companies like Google, Amazon etc who do their level best to avoid paying local taxes and don;t necessarily have a large physical presence on the ground. I'm sure Google et al would not to exit any country of france's size.

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  2. Brilliant by holophrastic · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like it. Yes enforcement would be tough, but that's a totally separate thing. This supports privacy but it does much more than that. It supports actually being able to make laws. It's less about "transfer" and more about transfering outside of the legal jurisdiction.

    More importantly, it attributes real value to personal data. That makes sense today, since it's sold as a currency already.

  3. Re:Totally Unworkable by Sique · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You got the idea. It's a disincentive for companies to have them manage personal data outside of the jurisdiction of people the data is about (which makes it nearly impossible or at least very expensive and cumbersome for said people to go to court about that data). Yes, you can still do it, but it comes at a price. And the company has to consider if it's worth it.

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