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French Council of State: for a more ‘digitally-suited’ law?

Dr Francesca Musiani, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
PUBLISHED ON: 13 Oct 2014

The recently-released report of the French Conseil d’Etat emphasises the ‘two faces’ of the internet vis-à-vis fundamental rights, and calls for fifty ‘digitally-suited’ legal measures. Comment by Francesca Musiani, member of the French Commission on Rights in the Digital Age.

Taxing the cloud: introducing a new taxation system on data collection?

Primavera De Filippi, Research and Studies Center of Administrative Science (CERSA/CNRS), Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
PUBLISHED ON: 01 May 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.2.124

Tax avoidance has become a widespread practice on the internet. Online operators easily circumvent an aging taxation scheme that is designed around the concept of territorial jurisdiction and geographical settings. The French government now commissioned a study to find out how to effectively deal with internet giants that generate hardly any