Minnesota senator and presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has floated the idea of taxing tech companies when they exploit user data.
“When they sell our data to someone else, well, maybe they’re going to have to tell us so we can put some kind of a tax on it.”.
Klobuchar acknowledged that she was simply floating an option, not putting forward a detailed policy prescription.
She compared tech companies using consumer data to transportation companies using public infrastructure.
And maybe there’s some way we can do that with large sets of data, when [tech companies] use it or when they sell it,” she said.
In Europe last year, regulators proposed a tax on any company making money from advertising or selling user data within a country, regardless of whether they have a brick-and-mortar presence.
Klobuchar was generally more circumspect in her interview, but a data tax would be a dramatic proposal — if she actually moves forward with it, which seems far from certain. »
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