welcome the tax authorities on their crusade of taxing the exchange of personal data when it plays the role of a commodity. Certainly more than the DPAs have done about consent-or-pay so far! Either you pay with your data or you don't. Can't have it both ways! 😁 - ThreadSky

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gateklons.bsky.social • 85 days ago

welcome the tax authorities on their crusade of taxing the exchange of personal data when it plays the role of a commodity. Certainly more than the DPAs have done about consent-or-pay so far!

Either you pay with your data or you don't. Can't have it both ways! 😁

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robertjbateman.bsky.social•85 days ago

I am tempted to suggest that *you* are trying to have it both ways... But I guess your position is predicated on the fact that consent-or-pay is happening...?

gateklons.bsky.social•85 days ago

Yep, objectively, regardless of existing legal obligations, consent-or-pay commodifies personal data. That triggers VAT Code obligations, as well as the Digital Content Directive (which leaves this open as a possibility despite saying that PD is not a commodity) and a couple of other laws.

gateklons.bsky.social•85 days ago

GDPR by and large says personal data should not be commodified but that's a separate legal event, punishable separately. Violating that tacks on other potential violations.

That said, in the rare cases when commodification of PD is permissible under GDPR, that is also taxable.

gateklons.bsky.social•85 days ago

Obviously wider taxation of the exchange of PD is not desirable and I wouldn't advocate for that anyway. Would be a distraction for the authorities.

Though, it hadn't occurred to me before that tax authorities could be mobilized for the cause of privacy even in the absence of privacy laws.

robertjbateman.bsky.social•85 days ago

Agreed.

Also, in general, let's just rinse them ;)

Or alternatively take the UK's (possible) approach.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j0dgym8w1o

bartolomeo76.bsky.social•85 days ago

Great way to deal with the massive use of personal data

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