France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @02:02AM 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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Enforcement by Hypotensive · 2013-09-24 02:06 · 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 · 2013-09-24 02:12 · 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.