Oops -- Twice
by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:
First up, Facesucker lost a Belgium privacy case – and should lose one here, right after we find an AG and FTC with a pair of balls:
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Belgian court threatened Facebook (FB.O) with a fine of up to 100 million euros ($125 million) if it continued to break privacy laws by tracking people on third party websites.
In a case brought by Belgium’s privacy watchdog, the court also ruled on Friday that Facebook had to delete all data it had gathered illegally on Belgian citizens, including people who were not Facebook users themselves.
The case turned on what should be a trivially prosecuted case for any such property – Facebook was (and is) tracking people who are not their subscribers and selling that information. They are doing so through the mere presence of “Like” buttons and invisible, single-pixel beacons on sites — with no way to “opt out” of it or disclosure that they’re doing it.
This is a serious problem across the web and the new EU data regulations make clear that it’s illegal to do this. Facebook thinks they can beat the charge on appeal — I doubt it.
Second, Spamazon has just done something that should lead to them being forced to collect and remit sales tax on all third party sales.
Specifically, they took responsibility for other vendors who sold illegal pesticides on their site as a third-party seller.
The parallel is clear: If Amazon has “nexus” for the purpose of being liable for the sale of illegal pesticides by third party sellers then it certainly also has “nexus” for sales tax purposes!
We’ll see how long it takes for the State Attorneys General to figure it out and come after them. My suspicion, given how much money is involved? Not long at all.
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Source: https://www.sgtreport.com/articles/2018/2/19/oops-twice
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