A controversial report proposing, among other things, a tax on the creation of digital profiles of French consumers is available in English. The tax would encourage privacy-friendly behavior by platforms collecting data, much like a carbon tax, while platform applying the highest level of privacy protections would pay little or no tax.
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French Privacy Tax Explained by Report’s Author
Nicolas Colin, one of the authors of the report proposing a “privacy tax” in France that we blogged about on January 22nd, just explained his report in more detail in this Forbes blog entry. Readers interested in this issue may find the Forbes blog post of interest.