'Beastly' System Marking Every Purchase You Make
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'Beastly'
System Marking Every Purchase You Make
Want to buy a "long live the tea
party" bumper sticker online? Soon,
the
state government
in Colorado could know that you
purchased it,
what you paid for it, where it was shipped,
what billing address you used, and a
few other
details. A plan requiring that
consumers'
online purchases
be tracked, compiled
into lists and reported annually has
been
launched in the state, and now a
lawsuit is
challenging the constitutionality of
the Big
Brother look into credit-card records.
The
Direct Marketing Association's lawsuit
is over
the state's law that now gives
"out-of-state retailers" the option
of demanding consumers pay to them the
Colorado sales tax or complying with
the information
compilation and reporting
requirements.
"The Department's
tax-policy director
has stated publicly that he believes
most
affected retailers would choose to
collect
Colorado sales tax to avoid the more
unpleasant option of having to send
tax
notices to their customers," the
lawsuit
alleges. But there are threats to companies
because of requirements that they keep
consumers' information private.
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