[vaduz]

Great idea! It means that the company gets to do the tracking as much as it wants as long as it shares some of these profits with the government, and as a bonus gets to enjoy a reasonably confidence that any initiative to futher enhance privacy will be quashed in a hurry - with bipartisan support, too, especially in the current tax revenue slump thanks to the ongoing pandemic. /s

The word you were probably looking for is fines, but they would have to be punitive and extraordinarily risky to stop the practice...

[flavius29663]

what I meant was taxes high enough to matter for the bottom line. Also, this would force the companies to open up their databases for government or public inspection, kind-of like we do today with uranium processing. This alone would expose dark behavior much earlier than today