Thread · 2 tweets · 10 Apr 2018

Taxation would be difficult and I’m not convinced it would not have adverse effects. Right off the bat, what degree of pseudonymisation would flip data from personal to non-personal? Under the GDPR you can make the case that it’s sufficient for specific threats to…

…the “rights and freedoms of data subjects.” For taxation, you either owe money or you don’t. Budgets would be cut for InfoSec-required data logging before they got cut for marketing retargeting, etc. This also opens the door to data patrimoniality, which is a whole other hell!